May 05, 2024

University Catalog 2021-2022

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Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-1510: Independent Study: Humanities Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 5.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Independent Study Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-2999: Individualized Study in the Humanities Individualized learning in the integrative humanities spanning history, literature, art history, philosophy, and writing, as negotiated, in relation to contemporary veteran issues. Often building on learning from a core course in the Clemente Veteran’s Initiative. Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 5.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Seattle Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3011: Ancient Civilization Africa to Asia An exploration of the daily lives of people of antiquity, their worldviews and methods of social and political organization, their discoveries, inventions and creations in literature, science, and spiritual practice, and ways in which we can derive inspiration from their cultures and histories. Min. Credits: 6.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3012: Ancient Civ Middle E & Northrn Africa This course explores the lives of the people of antiquity in Northern Africa and the Middle East. We will address their worldviews and methods of social and political organization, their discoveries, inventions, spiritual practices, science, and literary achievements. We will also address the cultural and historical heritages and legacies they left behind. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3013: Far Eastern Civilizations This course explores the lives of the people of antiquity in the Far East. We will address their worldviews and methods of social and political organization, their discoveries, inventions, spiritual practices, science, and literary achievements. We will also address the cultural and historical heritages and legacies they left behind. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3022: Greek Civilization This course explores the historical and cultural evolution of classical Greece through the epics, dramas, histories and philosophies that both reflected and shaped the minds and events from the Classical world. Students will consider how reason and observation came to challenge Greek mythological thinking and how early Greek philosophy, politics, history, art, and writings reflected and shaped the entire Mediterranean world. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3023: Roman Civilization This course explores the historical and cultural evolution of classical Rome through the epics, dramas, histories and philosophies that both reflected and shaped the minds and events from the Classical world. Students will consider how reason and observation came to challenge early Roman mythological thinking and how early Greek philosophy, politics, history, art, and writings shaped early Roman thought. Students will also reflect on the impact that ancient Rome had on Western European thought and culture. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3030: Twenty-First Century Latin American Social Movements Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3032: Early Jewish & Christian Heritages In addition to learning about the main themes of the sacred scriptures from these religious traditions, students will explore the diverse ways scholars have interpreted the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. They explore how Judaism and Christianity took institutional shape and diversified over time. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3033: Early Islamic Heritage In addition to learning about the main themes of the sacred scriptures from this religious tradition, students will explore the diverse ways scholars have interpreted the Quran. They will also explore how Muslim traditions took institutional shape and diversified over time, and they will also explore the Islamic world and examine its contributions to European civilization during the early Renaissance, and assess contemporary tensions and affinities between the Muslim peoples and the West. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3034: Early Jewish Heritage and Its Impact on Contemporary Society The Abrahamic traditions - encompassing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - claim adherents across the globe. Far more than a personal approach to piety and morality, the worldviews of these religions influence law, politics, art, architecture, spirituality, morality, and more. For over half the Earth’s population, they shape understandings of such essential human constructs as community, individuality, and right relationship to one another. This course examines the origins and early development of the Judaic tradition and its continuing impact upon society in contemporary times. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3035: Early Christian Heritage and Its Impact On Contemporary Society The Abrahamic traditions - encompassing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - claim adherents across the globe. Far more than a personal approach to piety and morality, the worldviews of these religions influence law, politics, art, architecture, spirituality, morality, and more. For over half the Earth’s population, they shape understandings of such essential human constructs as community, individuality, and right relationship to one another. This course examines the origins and early development of the Christian tradition and its continuing impact upon society in contemporary times. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3036: Early Islamic Heritage and Its Impact on Contemporary Society The Abrahamic traditions - encompassing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - claim adherents across the globe. Far more than a personal approach to piety and morality, the worldviews of these religions influence law, politics, art, architecture, spirituality, morality, and more. For over half the Earth’s population, they shape understandings of such essential human constructs as community, individuality, and right relationship to one another. This course examines the origins and early development of the Islamic tradition and its continuing impact upon society in contemporary times. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3040: Birds in the Field & Human Imagination The purpose of this course is to engage a tradition that spans millennia and every culture: a human fascination with birds. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, we will explore birds through many lens and avenues. As naturalists, we will seek out birds in the wild, experimenting with different approaches to observation. We will consider common themes in the life circumstances of birds, as well as explore the impact of human civilization on the ecology of natural habitats. Further, we will explore birds as symbols of the human imagination as expressed Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3042: Medieval and Renaissance Europe In this course, we will study important works of literature, art and philosophy of Europe from the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe. Themes from the course include the rise of chivalry, the Crusades, the formation of trading cities, and the emergence of new merchant class. Additional themes include the Inquisition, religious wars, tension between faith and reason, the birth of the empirical sciences, and the initial encounters with the new world. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3052: Colonialism Students explore the impact of colonial contacts between Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, the rise of revolutionary modes of thinking which challenged all forms of inherited dogma, oppression and forms of exploitation by reading and discussing major classics of literature, philosophy and history. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3053: Postcolonialism In this course, we will examine the rise of divergent modes of thought and expression through the lens of the classics of literature, philosophy and history in various cultures from around the world. We will also explore the manner in which global capitalism has become a force that has shaped personal modes of expression and self-definition throughout the globe in the past century. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3062: Indigenous Civ in Latin Amer & Caribbean This course addresses the histories, cultures, and heritages of the great civilizations from the center of Mexico, throughout the southern part of the Americas. Particular emphasis will be placed on the daily rituals, diets, worship practices, scientific achievements, ways of life, and worldviews of the Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultures. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3063: Indiginous Civilizations of N America This course addresses the histories, cultures, and heritages of the great civilizations from present day United States and Canada Americas. Particular emphasis will be placed on the daily rituals, diets, worship practices, scientific achievements, ways of life, and worldviews of the indigenous peoples of the Desert Southwest, the Great Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Northwest. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3070: Borderlands: Exploring Identities and Borders Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3090: Queer Perspectives: Applications in Contemporary Society This course critically addresses the term ?queer,? its changing definition, and the particular ways in which it has described, marginalized and excluded people, communities and modes of thought. Using both academic and empirical examples, students will explore and uncover how queer thought has influenced such diverse human endeavors as civil rights, athletics, literature, pop culture, and science. Students will express their analyses and experience(s) of queerness through final paper and class presentation, based on a personal, community, professional, or academic topic developed in conjunction with the professor. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3100: Religious Worldviews: How Religion Constructs Our World This interdisciplinary humanities course uses methods and insights from history, philosophy, and sociology to examine the religious worldviews of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam in terms of their experiential, mythological, doctrinal, ethical, ritual, and social dimensions. In light of each of these worldviews, the issues of nationalism, capitalism, globalization, technology, environmentalism, feminism, and education are explored. The overriding concern of the course is to understand and appreciate the concrete ideological implications of three religious worldviews. Representatives of these religious traditions participate as guest speakers to provide direct experience of these worldviews and their implications. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3110: LA Museums: Public Memory and Urban Narratives Museums are traditionally yet mistakenly viewed simply as repositories of antiquity, as warehouses of relics from earlier times. However, museums play an indispensable role in contributing to the urban narrative. They are vibrant and exciting institutions of contemporary life and reminders of that which made earlier times and events relevant. Their collections help shape the public memory of what, from the past, has meaning. Conversely, what museums choose not to make available to the visiting and viewing public also implicitly contributes to the shaping of public memory. This course engages the urban narratives of Los Angeles by lecture, discussion, and field trips to local museums. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3120: Contemporary Approaches to Social Studies This course explores contemporary issues in social studies – governmental structures, social and institutional histories, economic systems, etc. – as well as the public schooling curricula that structure and situate the ways these issues are taken up in schooling contexts. In this course students explore relevant local, national, and international social studies structures, systems, and theories, and consider their consequences for individuals, schools, communities, and imagined futures. Students expand their knowledge and awareness of what “social studies” means – and the disciplines included in that title – and cultivate their own interests and curiosities regarding social studies topics. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Seattle Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3140: Scholary Storytelling and Library Research This course will be a hands-on and knee-deep exploration of different methods of library research. As methods (mad library skillz) are learned, we will traverse the information landscape: analyzing literature and theory about information; searching for stories; pursuing documents and ephemera housed in university, community, and Internet archives and libraries; examining the Internet, as public good and private asset, depositor and trafficker. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3160: Human Rights and Children This upper-division course uses a case study approach to address the issue of human rights and children. The rights of children are examined from a national and international perspective as well as from the point of view of political philosophy. The national perspective uses Supreme Court cases that have examined and established children’s rights such as limiting or forbidding child labor, protection of the dependent and incompetent, constraints on parental authority, children’s’ rights to access to education and medical services. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3230B: Addiction in Literature & Film This course will explore addiction in literature and film and encourage students to consider varying perspectives of addiction and its portrayal in these mediums. Students will be provided with an opportunity to view addiction through the lens of classic writers such as Tolstoy, Cheever, Parker and Poe as well as contemporary provocative works by Verghese, Bullitt-Jonas and the Barthelme brothers who collectively give shape and meaning to the raw experience of uncontrollable urges. Students will have an opportunity to analyze themes such as escape, desire, emptiness, and need, which form a crucial part of many literary and film experiences, particularly in contemporary works. This journey will also explore addiction in (American) film as we view clips from powerfully compelling movies that will provide students an opportunity to view societal and cultural perspectives as well as social justice issues brought forth in film. Students will be invited to explore the systems and power structures in place in these mediums that either knowingly, or unknowingly, have an impact on society’s experience with addiction. Students will also be asked to contribute their critical perspective on how addiction is portrayed in literature and film and their views on how the stigma associated with addiction is represented. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3240A: Jazz, Culture, and Politics in Community Arts Movements This course will explore the most significant music-centered community arts movements in African American communities throughout the U.S. since the 1960s. These were primarily jazz-based, and sought to deeply immerse the arts and artists in the lives of their communities. The most significant were/are the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago, the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra / Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension (PAPA/UGMAA) in Los Angeles, Black Artists Group (BAG) in St. Louis, Tribe in Detroit, Collective Black Artists (CBA) and the Vision Festival / Art for Art’s Sake in New York City. The approach is sociological, i.e. music understood as an expression of societal values, consciousness, and structures, rather than musicological, although there will be some elementary grounding in musical styles. Through critical appraisals of oral historical and secondary sources, listening to recordings, viewing live and filmed performances, discussion, and various projects, you are encouraged to explore this world emotionally, analytically, and critically, within the classroom as well as outside in engagement with cultural centers and artists in the Los Angeles community. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3240B: Shakespeare Deconstructed: Gender and Power Play Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3270: Constructions of Masculinity in America How is masculinity constructed? This course will explore the intersectionality of aspects of American culture – particularly, race, ethnicity, religion, immigration, sexual orientation/identity, and socio-economic status – and how they contribute to the inextricably linked definitions, practices and discourses of masculinity in America. Explorations of these themes of American culture will make visible how current views and practices of masculinity have been fortified in myriad aspects of our lives. As each class session will be dedicated to illuminating a particular theme in American culture, students will learn that particular theme’s (1) influences on the constructions of masculinity, (2) effects on the development of masculinity discourses within various populations, and (3) potential to imagine more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable versions of masculinity in America than are currently and practiced. An interactive class format will be utilized, including critique of all assigned readings, film and video screenings, large and small group discussion, self-reflective written assignments, and oral/visual final presentations. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3280: Capturing Stories: COVID-19 Capturing Stories invites students to collect personal stories of the pandemic from their own lives and in the communities where they live. Inspired by the COVID-19 Oral History Project and A Journal of the Plague Year, this new course allows students the freedom to observe, reflect and participate in gathering data in real time about how the virus has impacted lives. This includes topics such as health, habits, jobs, families, well-being, dreams, politics, visions of the future, and much more. Students conduct at least one oral history interview which will become part of a larger archive online, in partnership with other universities. We can share pictures, memes and videos of what people are experiencing right now: empty streets, working from home, chalk-drawn messages of encouragement. Students will also engage their creativity in artwork, theater, music or a dance using available media such as photography, video, audio recording, etc. While students collaborate on group projects, their curiosity determines the subject matter. Together, we will document how CoVid19 is influencing lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary - or not at all. Along the way, we’ll practice active listening, research skills, hands-on media production, and have fun. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3280A: The Art of Humor This course focuses on the development of students? creative writing skills in the context of humor writing. We will apply several literary and psychological theories to a wide range of cross-disciplinary models of humor writing (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, television writing and stand-up comedy) in order to develop students? own creative work. Close readings of comedic texts will support a rich understanding of the psychological, socio-cultural, and literary mechanisms by which humor operates. The course will also compare and contrast various kinds of humor, including satirical, parodic, slapstick, farcical, gallows, highbrow, lowbrow, and will involve discussion, writing exercises, group work, and relevant video. Students will be invited to identify and explore the rich territories for humor inside and outside their lived experiences and to leverage these into their own creative writing. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3290: Prophetic Voices, Future Visions This course will explore dimensions of the prophetic imagination across time and cultures in search for clues or messages for our current era and the future. What has the wisdom of the past predicted? What can we learn from these voices? As a class, we will explore literature, poetry, historical accounts, philosophy, depth psychology, and sacred texts from a wide array of sources including: indigenous spiritualities from around the globe, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Abrahamic traditions, science fiction, technological forecasts, and several compelling modern accounts. At the end of the course, students will engage their prophetic imagination by writing a prophecy or vision of the future uniquely their own. This class encourages students to consider the larger scope of psychological history while accessing a fascinating spiritual landscape encoded with vital knowledge regarding humanity’s way forward. This is a “W” (writing emphasis) class in which students will develop tools to improve their academic writing. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3310A: Symbols, Patterns, and the Cosmic Whole The natural world, humans, and the cosmos are constructed from patterns reflecting numbers, geometric shapes and relationships. Each image with its correlative numerical value is unique in its role in creating and maintaining the cosmic order. This course explores symbols and patterns and their relationship to each other as well as their individual expressions in nature, architecture, mythology, the arts and their role in guiding the life process itself. From unity and wholeness to transformation, stability, and completion, numerical symbols, geometric shapes, and patterns are explored in the cultures of the Ancient Near East (Sumerian, Babylonian), Egypt, Greece, Central and South America (Mayan, Aztec, Incan), the Far East (Japan, China, Thailand), and Medieval Europe. Designed to deepen an understanding of the natural world and human culture through an exploration of the numerical and geometric foundations of both human and natural design, this course develops the tools necessary for a life-affirming metaphysical, psychological, and sociological relationship to one’s self, others, and the world. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3380: Picasso: Life and Work This course studies Picasso as an original artist and Picasso, the person, in relation to his constructivism. Contributions to Cubism are emphasized. In addition, the work of other artists are compared and contrasted such as Rodin, Matisse, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3450: Foundations of Civilization This course focuses on understanding differences between cultures and civilizations, including how both evolve from specific environmental conditions, and are shaped to address local challenges. This course examines the religious, economic, and political systems in such foundational zones as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, India and China, and Greece and Rome. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3480B: Gay & Lesbian History Through Documentary Film This course explores the past 100 years of gay and lesbian history, powerfully evoked through numerous award-winning documentary films and one classic historical text. Each class includes the screening of a full-length film, followed by deconstructive conversations exploring the cultural, political, and psychological impact on gay and lesbian individual and community identity in America. This interdisciplinary on-line humanities course explores the diverse array of American utopian communities that emerged during the 19th century. Exemplary communities include: the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Zoarists, New Harmony, Yellow Springs communities, Brook Farm, Fruit lands, the Amana Society, the Oneida community, the Icarians, and Modern Times. These communities are placed in their historical, sociological, and economic context, and the variety of impulses that conditioned the rise of utopian communities is examined. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3510: Independent Study Our sense of cultural identity is in flux and under construction, subject to the play of history and difference. Through documentaries, videos and readings of American Indian myths, stories from the Latin American Boom, and vernacular African- American tales, students uncover layered histories of American destinies and their possible role in defining a more inclusive sense of American culture. Students analyze how stories and counter-stories teach and delight; how gender is constructed through cautionary or celebratory tales and how diverse spiritual and erotic values are encoded. Students locate, in stories, the struggle against inhuman violence motivated by greed and fear. Students explore the American Indian presence in Los Angeles, in a powwow, museum visit and guest interview. Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 5.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Independent Study Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3530: Internship Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 5.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Field Study Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3540: 19th Century American Utopian Communities This interdisciplinary on-line humanities course explores the diverse array of American utopian communities that emerged during the 19th century. Exemplary communities include: the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Zoarists, New Harmony, Yellow Springs communities, Brook Farm, Fruit Lands, the Amana Society, the Oneida community, the Icarians, and Modern Times. These communities are placed in thier historical, sociological, and economic context, and the variety of impulses that conditioned the rise of utopian communities is examined. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3600: Justice and Equity Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3630B: Watching Black on Network Television: From Amos & Andy to Oprah Against a background of black Americans’ struggle for social justice and the many changes experienced in American social, political and cultural landscape spanning from the 1950s to the 1990s, this course traces a vivid history of African Americans on network television. The course fosters a critical reading of the early and blatant stereotypes of the postwar era to the more subtle images of black folk witnessed throughout the 1990s. With a critical eye on the issue of race and its role in shaping audience perceptions and attitudes, students also examine a diverse set of weekly series, TV movies, and miniseries including an array of television characters and controversial black images including Kingfish & Sapphire to Julia, Dr. Huxtable and television host, Oprah. Class meetings consist of readings, short lectures, media presentations and a guest panel of television artists. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3650: Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy This course explores fundamental ethical theories and applies them to an understanding of professional ethics in counseling. A variety of Western views are addressed including deontological, utilitarian, virtue ethics, and egoistic theories. The class includes several cross-cultural theories such as Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Buddhist. Students scrutinize basic ethical dilemmas encountered in the work of being a psychologist, as well as engaging in the debate about what is moral, how we make choices about right and wrong, and the responsibilities counselors shoulder in giving advice and in their influence over another person’s life. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3670B: The Narrative Method: Building Empathic Relationships Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3680: Human Narrative and American Culture This two-day workshop will take an intensive, critical, intersectional look at narrative and its place in American culture. Through the lens of readings in the neuroscience of history, the social psychology behind tribalism and moral choices, and the sociology behind the history of cities, we will take a closer look at varying influences on our national narrative and how we perceive it. We will question how it can be shaped and reshaped, and the place that we, as citizens have in that narrative. Particular attention will be given to our constantly shifting present-day national narrative as it is influenced and changed daily through the news and social media. Through lectures, analysis of pre-class readings, dialogue, and in-class writing exercises, we will ask how we were formed by the narratives in which we grew up, how those narratives spoke to or ignored us, and how we can, through our own writings, social media practices, and behavior in our communities help to shape the narrative of the world in which we live. Min. Credits: 2.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3710: The Politics of Psychology This course investigates the social, economic, and political contexts of the contemporary practice of psychology. Approaching the subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives raises substantive questions concerning the role of psychologists in the politics of psychology. This course intends to broaden the horizons of understanding of the discipline’s history, present day social practices, and future potential. This is a highly recommended gateway course for all Psychology Concentration students. Min. Credits:* 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3710C: Politics of Psychology Min. Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3720: Latina/o/x Studies: the Culture & the Politics Welcome to an experience that will leave you with more questions than answers. That is a goal, and in our jornada we will learn through a (re)mix of the social sciences and humanities, as well as interdisciplinary areas that represent different regions, countries and nationalities of focus. On the social sciences side, we will discuss this interdisciplinary area through politics and political sociology. On the humanities side, we will experience poetry, music, storytelling, and creative writing. This is a “W” (writing emphasis) class in which students will develop tools to improve their academic writing. The term “Latina/o/x Studies” is a reflection of dialogues taking place in the interdisciplinary area relating to the presence of Latin American nationalities in the United States and elsewhere. It is a blend of two strands of thinking: “Latina/o Studies” and “Latinx Studies,” There is agreement on the need to shift away from the male “Latino” toward gender-inclusive forms. Min. Credits:* 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3750: Critical Thinking About Contemporary Issues In this course students will explore and respond to challenging ideas in Southern Africa, such as those of migrant labor and its sociological consequences, double imperialism, the problem of creating ethnic balance in a multi-cultural society, the interaction between religion and politics, and others, comparing them to similar situations in the U.S. Topics will include the peoples of Southern Africa and their environment; Bantu-Boer conflicts and the British Imperial factor, apartheid in Southern African politics; South Africa and its neighbors; and future prospects. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3790A: Alternative Religious Movements This interdisciplinary humanities course explores a diverse array of alternative religious movements in the United States from 1950 to the present. Examples of groups that may be considered include: Baha’i, Vedanta Society, Unification Church, Eckankar, Scientology, Branch Davidians, Transcendental Meditation, and Self-realization Fellowship. These groups are placed in their historical and sociological contexts, and the variety of impulses that conditioned the rise of these movements is examined. Each group is also examined critically in terms of its major philosophical/religious tenets. The issue of the future of alternative religious movements is examined as well. Representatives of selected groups are invited to class sessions, and some visits to selected groups are arranged. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3800: Israel & Palestine: History, Literature and Media This course will explore the experiences of women in our society from a feminist perspective. Using this perspective we will critique sexism and patriarchy in our society, and look at the contributions of women to a variety of disciplines- literature, history, psychology, sociology. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3801: People’s History: Reading Zinn and Media Howard Zinn (1922-2010), historian, teacher, playwright, and social activist, is best known for his seminal work, A People’s History of the United States. Zinn approached history from the basic premise that the lives of ‘ordinary’ people matter - that means workers, women, people of color and others. Their stories were often left out of the conventional histories of the United States. His books document their struggles, victories and the setbacks that exposed the power structures of their times. They show resilience when standing up against injustice as they organized and challenged the status quo. This course includes a close reading of selections from Zinn’s book, his essays, and his autobiography. It also draws from an extensive video archive placing his life in a context of movements for social change. Students gain an understanding of the politics of history and of historians, sharpen their research and writing skills through essays and a research paper, and evaluate the impact of Howard Zinn’s legacy in education and political action a decade after his passing. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3810: Zen & Taoism The Zen tradition is deeply rooted in Taoism. In truth, it was born from, and is an extension of, Taoist ontology. This course will explore what lies at the heart of both of these traditions by examining the cultural context, art, and narratives produced by these enigmatic schools of thought. This profoundly rich spiritual heritage has much to offer the modern world. Its ability to abide in uncertainty and seek awareness outside the confines of rational thought provide a respite from the tangles of dualism so dominant in the West. The ephemeral nature of this lineage offers a redemptive spaciousness amidst the clutter and distortions of the 21st century. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3820: Sacred Activism Amidst environmental degradation, a global pandemic, rampant capitalism, systemic racism, and a myriad of societal issues, it is often difficult to maintain a sense of hope, vitality, and connection. One of the great dangers of our time is the tendency for individuals to become so overwhelmed that it becomes hard to cope with life, let alone do the important work that our changing world calls us to do. This class is designed to offer perspectives on the possibility of healing and transformation that opens us to our potential for sacred action. By reading progressive works by theorists, activists, environmentalist, and modern-day mystics, we will be exposed to ideas that will give us the tools to move forward with the hearts and minds of warriors for change. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3830W: Visions of Human Purpose in Literature: Love, Power and Resistance Using the novel as our catalyst students critically consider the question of a purposeful life. The novel’s unique relation to modernity offers an opportunity to investigate provocative examples of the individual’s relation to structures of power, the possibilities of resistance, and the potential for love. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3840: The Unified Field: A Web of Interconnection Throughout time and across cultural divides, the notion of unity or interconnection is a concept that lies at the heart of a myriad of religious traditions and spiritual philosophies on the planet. From Indigenous peoples, the yogis of India and Tibet, the mystical writings of the Abrahamic Traditions, and the findings of modern science; unified field theory continues to unfold and develop in compelling ways. By considering this topic through the lens of mythology, sacred texts, depth psychology, and quantum mechanics, we will contemplate the meaning, significance, and relevance of a world view in which consciousness, nature, and the elementary roots of matter itself are intrinsically bound together in a sea, web, and network-a great system of relationships. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3850A: Psychology of Love As the Path to Wholeness This course examines the concept of love in its myriad expressions, analyzing each within a context of its role in maintaining psychological wholeness and health. Students gain an appreciation for and understanding of the concept of love in its various meanings and expressions as well as its value to a healthy psyche (consciously and sub/unconsciously) to both antiquity as well as contemporary society. Love is recognized as the force of creation and the energy by which life continues to exert itself in its many manifestations. Students discern the myriad experiences of love and their expressions within a personal experience of self and among/between others. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3870: The Psychology of Fairy Tales This course introduces students to a range of conceptual approaches to the understanding of fairy tales, including folklorist, literary, psychoanalytic, feminist, and cross-cultural. Through lecture, theoretical readings, close reading of fairy tale texts, interactive classroom discussion, and written assignments students will develop their critical lenses for interpreting the tales, critiquing conceptual approaches, and reflecting on the personal meaning they have acquired from the learning. Min. Credits: 3.0 Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3870: The Psychology of Fairy Tales This course introduces students to a range of conceptual approaches to the understanding of fairy tales, including folklorist, literary, psychoanalytic, feminist, and cross-cultural. Through lecture, theoretical readings, close reading of fairy tale texts, interactive classroom discussion, and written assignments students will develop their critical lenses for interpreting the tales, critiquing conceptual approaches, and reflecting on the personal meaning they have acquired from the learning. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900AH: Genocide: Darfur, Armenia, and Bosnia This workshop focuses on historical, political, and religious questions of genocide. Students learn to analyze three recent and current examples of genocide: Armenia, Bosnia, and Darfur. By examining historical and cultural differences in each of these cases, students engage some probing questions about how knowledge and exposure to global genocide can transform our future. How is genocide different form war? How are ethnicity, race, and tribe defined? What types of political systems have permitted these type of atrocities? After genocide has been committed, how do the oppressors and victims reconcile? How are female victims impacted differently? Finally, the class explores how we can teach ourselves about genocide and the political landscape that serves as its backdrop, and what we can do about it? No grade equivalents allowed. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900AU: Women in Contemporary Politics Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 2.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900AX: Occupy the Internet: A Labratory Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900AZ: Queer Theory The recent radical reappropriation of the term queer has signified a move towards provocative and innovative theoretical and political ends. At the same time it constitutes a move away from the essentialism of gay and lesbian identity politics. This workshop charts some of the discourses related to the emergence of queer theory (homophile movements, the women’s movement, gay liberation and lesbian feminism) and articulates some of the challenges queer theory presents in its call for new ways of conceptualizing and living out sex, gender, sexuality and identity. No grade equivalents allowed. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900BB: Women & Islam Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900BD: Black Mexico: Recovering Mexico’s African Past This workshop traces the African heritage in Mexico, known as the Third Root. Through an interdisciplinary approach that include the chronicles of the Conquest, the 18th century Casta Paintings,and live music, the students will explore Mexico’s third root, and understand how the widely held concept of Mexico as a Mestizo nation (half Spanish and half Indian) excludes its African heritage. Students will learn how to identify in various texts the African presence in Mexico, focusing in three historical periods: the Spanish Conquest (1519-21), the Colony(1521-1810), and the Independence (1810-1821). Examination of the 18th century Caste Paintings will provide strong visual component of this class. Students will also analyze historical maps of the slave trade route from West Africa to Mexico and to the different geographical points in Mexico where slaves were assigned to work, according to the labor needed in the country’s four main areas of production: the sugar mills, coffee plantations, mines, and haciendas. The workshop will explore the geographical areas of Mexico where the African heritage is visible (for example, in the physical traits of the people on the coasts), contrasted with those areas where this heritage is less visible but present in local language, food, and music. This workshop will end with a live music performance of a repertoire that stresses the Mexican African roots. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900BN: Poetry & Memory This workshop provides an opportunity to mine our memories to awaken new, startling poems. We will explore the rich territory of ideas, people, places, and emotions from our past, and examine how memory can inform and affect our writing. Students will learn how to dig into memories from the span of their lives and will see how uncovering one memory often leads to another and another, creating fresh, imaginative work that surprises both the writer and reader. The day will be a mixture of lecture, reading classical and contemporary poetry based on poets’ memories, and practicing fever writing or automatic writing, tapping into our memories and the subconscious and reading aloud to the class. Although geared for poets and writers, this workshop will also be of value to non-writers, particularly students studying psychology, by showing how we can capture and utilize details from our memories to use as inspiration no matter what our discipline. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900CC: Narrative Medicine: Teaching Empathy Through Literature & Performance Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900CD: Writing the Body This two-day workshop investigates the aesthetic intersection between writing and gender. Is writing by women fundamentally different from writing by men? Are there clues in how men and women apply (or ignore) the rules of grammar, syntax and structuring principles? Hints in their choice of subject matter, style, strength of voice, clarity of thought? And what about the writing produced by trans, intersex, agender, genderfuck and genderfluid writers? Are these gendered differences in writing mirrored in the literal form and function of our differently gendered bodies? This creative writing class invites students to view these questions through the twin lenses of intersectionality and the poststructuralist feminist discourse of ?criture f?minine, conduct in-depth textual investigations, and playfully experiment with form, content and style in their own creative responses. Min. Credits:* 2.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900DA: Writing the Self Into the 21st Century: A Laboratory The central concern of this two-day workshop is to investigate the following question: what does it mean to be alive in the 21st century? Naturally it takes a while for a century to get going; it seems that it’s only as we enter this century’s second decade that we can even begin to grapple with this matter. Within this central focus, other questions will be raised, such as what are the social and technological structures that define our daily existence? How does everyday life today differ from our daily routines in the 20th century? What do we despise about this century? What are uniquely 21st century pleasures, public and private? What are the pivotal events of the first decade? What role do ongoing concerns such as religion, love, identity, sex, creativity and spirituality play? And how do we relate to history and social justice? Some focus will also be given to the ambivalent role of writing and literature in our century. The framework for this seminar will be as much experiential as theoretical, and therefore highly participatory and dialogue based, including informal presentations on the 2nd day of the workshop. Prior to the workshop, participants will be emailed a number of questions that will require some forethought and some gathering of artifacts. Students will use the workshop’s findings to write a personal/creative essay on this topic. Students are encouraged to find a form that meets the shape of this century. Min. Credits: 2.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900LA: Los Angeles Architecture In this multimedia workshop students learn to interrogate the local built environment through the combined use of a pre-class self-guided tour of the Los Angeles civic center area and in-class exposure to photographs, documentary footage, on-line resources, texts, lecture and discussion. Architecture offers a particularly apt corpus for cultural analysis as it embodies and freezes in time the functional and aesthetic intent of its builders and their ability to interpret and influence community values, beliefs and lifestyles. Students learn to scrutinize the bewildering shape and fate of Los Angeles architectural repertoires from colonial La Plaza church to the upcoming hyper-real corridor in Grand avenue in search of revealing connections between regional built statements and local culture. No grade equivalents allowed. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900MA: Intro to Psychogeography: Where Is Antioch? This one-day workshop investigates and excavates the social and psychic geography of AULA and its nearby environs, allowing students to come to a deeper relationship with and more poetic, more embodied understanding of precisely where we are. The French Situationists’ concept of Psychogeography serves as theoretical framework. This model has been defined as the study of the precise effects of geographical setting on the emotions and behaviors of individuals. One of the major premises of the Situationists was that post-industrial capitalism engendered a profound state of alienation from one’s physical surroundings. The class examines the history of Situationism and its key theories, including concepts of psychogeography, drift, detournement and situations. Students also analyze their own perception of AULA’s locatedness by undertaking a group wandering around the environs surrounding AULA, attempting to remap AULA, resituate it in its environs and reimagine it. Students record what they find using writing, drawing, tape recordings, photography, and above all, their imaginations. No grade equivalent allowed. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3900MN: Poetry & Dreaming This workshop investigates the aesthetic intersection between poetry and dreaming. We will explore the rich territory of ideas, people, places, and emotions living in our dreams, and consider how we can tap into that world to create art. We will examine how dreams can inform and affect our writing, inspiring surprising scenes, and providing us with a window into our subconscious. Students will learn how to ?steal? from their dreams to create fresh, delightful, imaginative work. The day will be a mixture of lecture, reading classical and contemporary poetry based on dreams, analyzing poetry and its use of dreams, hearing the dreams of students, practicing the writing tips and methods offered in class, and finally molding our dreams into poems. Although geared for poets and writers, this workshop will also be of value to non-writers by showing how we can capture and utilize details and knowledge from our subconscious to use as inspiration no matter what our discipline. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3920: Moral Psychology in the Dramatic Film This course analyzes several dramatic films in class with the application of the theories of moral psychology of John Rawls, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Jean Piaget. Through class analyses and discussions, students will learn to apply these developmental and social contract theories. Films studied may include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mutiny on the Bounty, Babette’s Feast, The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Born on The Fourth of July, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Casablanca. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3920AA: Madness in American History and Film This course will explore the history and cinematic representation of madness in America, inviting the students’ critical analysis of the ethical, psychological and political effects in the treatment of insanity from 1750 to the present. An interactive and collaborative class format will be utilized, with discussion of weekly readings and film presentations. Topics to be explored include European influences, ethical dilemmas, the emergence of asylums, treatment pioneers, humane/inhumane practices, scientific and political imperatives, creation of the DSM, and interpersonal challenges within the individual, the family and the culture at large. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3930: Exploring Modernism & Post-Modernism This course examines the intersections between modernism and post-modernism as historical periods, worldviews, aesthetic statements, and attitudes toward politics, culture, art, and personal style. Through analysis of architecture, film, literature, music, and other artifacts of popular culture, and through works by contemporary North American and European social theorists and critics, students explore the dilemmas as well as the hopes of the postmodern condition. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-3950: ARTC Synthesis Project This course cultivates students’ understandings of educational research and critical teacher inquiry. In this course students explore various theoretical orientations to educational and social science research, consider the reflective and analytic stances necessary to engaging in critical inquiry, and cultivate rich research questions and critical approaches to analysis. Students produce both a written product as well as complete a community-based presentation to share their insights. Min. Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Seattle Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4010: History of Performance Art Students explore the shifting phenomenon of performance art by examining its historical origins, as a reaction to and deconstruction of the economic and aesthetic constraints of such artistic disciplines as visual art and theater. The course explores different formal movements in performance, including body-based work, identity-based work, time-based work and storytelling. The focus is on performance as it has developed and mutated in Los Angeles, with guest class visits from innovative and leading local artists. Through reading, viewing taped performances, discussion and practical exploration, students familiarize themselves with the radical possibilities of this discipline through historical, societal, political, and economic perspectives. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4040: Queer Theory Min. Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4050: Mesh of Civilzations: Islam & the West The course is designed to provide an overview of the historical interweaving of ‘western’ and ‘Islamic’ cultures. The course focuses on the Mediterranean region, the emergence of the Islamic empires, the involvement of the European colonial powers and the United States. The core values of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and its impact on the development of the European Renaissance is also explored. The course also traces the history, ideologies and arts of colonialism and resistance in the Islamic world, including that of women. The present globalized economic and cultural system is also highlighted. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4100: Teacher Inquiry & Research This course builds on students’ previous coursework as well as their work experiences throughout the first year of the ARTC-BA Program. Students design, curate, and produce a final portfolio project that serves as the culmination and synthesis of the first year of their ARTC-BA experience. Students produce both a written product as well as complete a community-based presentation to share their insights. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Seattle Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4510.LA: Independent Study Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 5.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Independent Study Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4600: Global Lenses: Social Issues in Narrative Film This course studies global cinema as a lens through which to understand the human impacts of social and environmental injustices. Films from diverse nations and cultures illuminate global issues by telling fictional stories that accurately and intimately depict how everyday lives, loves, and struggles are impacted by social dynamics of power and privilege within the filmmakers’ homelands. Some of these issues are large – such as impacts of globalization or climate change- while others are very precise–such as the lives of Kurdish orphans working as mine sweepers in Northern Iraq. In all, the narrative and cinematic lenses are focused on human impacts and grassroots actions, the stories of lives lived amidst injustice, challenges faced, activism inspired. In addition to viewing films, students will read and view materials from multiple academic disciplines to inform the films, for example historical or political science background materials, personal accounts and archival photographs. Students will also be introduced to basics of film theory and narrative theory, and discuss the role that these genres can play in movements for social or environmental justice. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4605: Global Cinema Provides a window into diverse and emergent forms of storytelling from around the world with a distinct focus on films made by filmmakers from Africa, Latin America and Asia. A mix of shorts, documentary and narrative features, the course examines the distinctive aesthetics, cultural contexts and authorship in recently released films in the film festival circuit. Recognizing films as cultural artifacts and filmmaking as practice, students develop their abilities to distinguish between watching a film, reading a film and understanding it from multiple perspectives given time, place, power dynamics and more. As they interrogate their own reactions, they surface preconceptions about other-ness, self-identities and their call out some of their own blinders. They develop their abilities to get outside themselves to recognize alternative points of view. Students read film theory, watch and analyze films weekly, and undertake a final project. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4710.LA: Mark Twain: Personal Philosophy and Moral Psychology This course studies Mark Twain as a social critic and moral educator and examines the personal philosophy that he brought to his writings. In context of Rawls’ moral psychology, course topics include Twain’s critiques of moral determinism, conventional religion, creationism, as well as the moral sense in human morality, adultery, hypocrisy, patriotism, superstition, religious intolerance and persecution. Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4730: Psychedelics Revisioned: The Cultural Politics of Consciousness This course investigates the social, cultural, economic, and political contexts of the contemporary status of psychedelics in the West. Charting a critically oriented path between fear and ignorance on one hand,and unbridled enthusiasm on the other, this course studies issues related to psychedelics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Religion and Philosophy) raising substantive questions concerning the place of psychedelics specifically in contemporary America, also in the world more broadly. This course is designed to critically engage and broaden the horizons of understanding of the history, present day practices, and future potential of psychedelics. Min. Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4760: Ecological Existentialism This course, while philosophical in orientation, provides an interdisciplinary reflection on the existential question of how to live endings (personal, collective, ecological), here and now, today. To do this we will draw from innovative work being done in a variety of disciplines: philosophy, psychology, history, literature, art, thanatology, and anthropology among them. At the heart of the course is the constructive work of collecting, creating, and weaving together new conceptual language, new metaphors, new paradigms, to support and inspire us in the living of endings. The course undertakes this task by putting at least two scales of inquiry in creative tension with one another.: setting the personal, biographical, existential arc of a life in conversation with the global, historical, political implications of the ongoing ecological crisis. Students should complete the course with an informed, applied, interdisciplinary understanding of living endings. Min. Credits: 4.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4900A: Imagining the Primitive Other In this one day workshop students explore various models of constructions of the primitive other, followed by an opportunity to apply these models to a variety of popular films and documentaries. Students gain a greater understanding of the sundry means by which the Western world, broadly speaking, negotiates difference, civilization and the primitive, and self and other. No grade equivalents allowed. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Workshop Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-4900AG: Divine Madness: Spirituality and Psychos This workshop critically considers the relation between spiritual experience and madness; carefully unpacking both similarities and differences between the two; while situating both within the broader context of the cultural politics of consciousness and the ongoing valuing and devaluing of various forms of alternate consciousness. Specific attention will be given to the spiritual/psychotic paradox: two types of experience defined, in part, as having opposing effects, yet closely enough related as to possibly suggest a common underlying process; while coming to an understanding of what is at stake in this for both religion/spirituality and psychology/psychopathology. Min. Credits: 1.0 Credit Basis: Quarter credit Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles Method(s): Classroom Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5001: Foundations of the Humanities This course introduces students to the history and philosophy of the Humanities across different cultural traditions. Students will explore various Humanities disciplines that evolved from Eastern, Western, and Indigenous traditions, while also examining the histories of various traditions in the Humanities including the Arts, Philosophy, Religion, Anthropology, and Literature. At the conclusion of this course, students will write a critical history of one important tradition in the Humanities. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous),Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5002: Humanities Research Methods This course introduces students to both scientific and humanistic methods of research that they can effectively use to address the issues and questions that arise in the course of studying various aspects of human societies and human interactions. Students will become proficient at raising and reviewing productive questions, formulating researchable hypotheses, designing logical and effective research strategies, conducting relevant empirical research programs, assessing the relevance and applicability of data, addressing issues of reliability and validity, and observing ethical research protocols, in the course of conducting research in the Humanities. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous),Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5003: Individualized Study in the Humanities This course explores various iterations of what a student wishes to accomplish in the course of creating their program of study in a student-defined area of study in the Humanities. It will involve serious reflection, introspection, and sharing of materials. Students will become proficient at designing courses with relevant, meaningful, and measurable outcomes; at linking course descriptions with course outcomes; at creating demonstrable curricular maps; and at collaborating with others to explore the legitimacy of one’s degree plan. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous),Online Meeting (synchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5005: Transition to Foundations of Individualized Learning in the Humanities This course serves as a bridge from a student’s prior learning academic experience to a finished degree plan. Students will explore various versions of what they wish to accomplish in their chosen fields of study. This course will involve serious reflection, introspection, and sharing of materials. Students will become proficient at designing courses with relevant, meaningful, and measurable outcomes; at linking course descriptions with course outcomes; at creating demonstrable curricular maps; and at collaborating with others to explore the legitimacy of their degree plans. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5010: Creative Writing Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5020: Cultural and Religious Studies Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5030: Arts and Letters Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5040: Building Memorable Worlds in Speculative Fiction This course explores the art of building characters and worlds in speculative fiction through a workshop format. Students will read and analyze several master works of speculative world-building in a variety of traditions and include works by authors, such as China Mieville, N.K. Jemisin and Philip K. Dick. Along with works from renowned authors, students will read and discuss craft talks from various other writers. In addition to reading and analyzing characters and world-building from professional writers, students will also be constructing their own scenes and critiquing our drafts through a peer review process. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5050: Spiritual Poetry This course examines the relationship between aesthetic experience, as expressed through profound poetry, and spirituality. Students will read from several significant traditions in poetry that draw from the well of deep cultural and religious traditions within which that poetry forms. First, students will read poetry from the T’ang Dynasty (7th through 10th centuries BCE China), and explore its relationship to Confucianism, Taoism, and various forms of Buddhism. Next, students will savor the rich cultural and religious traditions from the Middle East as they are expressed in Sufi poetry. Finally, students will investigate some of the mystical elements of Greek, Roman, Pagan, and Christian spirituality expressed in the works of contemporary Western mystical poets. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5060: Postmodernism and Truth In an era when such phrases as ‘alternative facts,’ ‘fake news,’ and ‘disdain for science,’ have become idiomatic, what is the status of truth and knowledge? Has the “modern” conception of truth, as something absolute and universal, become passe? Has postmodern philosophy, which seems to regard truth as contingent upon historical and social context, played a role in bringing about a new conception of truth? This course we will explore these questions first by reading more traditional accounts of truth and knowledge. Students will then explore the alternatives posited by postmodern writers, including Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, and discern the basis of their philosophical differences with modern conceptions. Students will debate whether these alternatives are defensible, and whether they represent the kind of alternative that could be the basis for alleged new conceptions of truth and knowledge. Students will also consult recent work on the cultural ramifications of postmodern philosophy and examine its impact on the larger moral and political landscape. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5070: Indigenous Survivance Every human being’s genetic memory is encoded with the experiences of their individual and collective evolution. These epistemological items, called memes, can be traced back through personal ancestry, cultural and societal history, and one’s own lived experiences. Although one may not be cognizant of them or even realize it, the capacity to draw upon that collective knowledge gained by all of those experiences is within each person. Yet, what bears understanding, is that while a cultural group may carry a unique code of inherent knowledge, one’s access to that knowing is dependent on many different factors. This course addresses how humans inherit genetic memes, or encoded memories, which historically, culturally, and individually enable them to emerge as conscious ways of knowing how to gain control over factors that enhance survival. Using select Indigenous cultures (e.g. Native Hawaiian, American Indian, etc.) to model, explore, and demonstrate the epistemological process of epigenetics and memetic transmission, this course will ultimately arrive at the notion of survivance, which involves the capacity, knowledge, wisdom, and depth of understanding that holds the potential to draw upon the past to make a significant impact on post-modern society. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science
	HUM-5080: Restorative Justice Restorative Justice is an emerging alternative to punishment and revenge as the traditional response to crime and other forms of offense. Practitioners employ “talking circles” designed to cultivate truth telling, accountability, healing and reparation in place of expensive, lengthy, and often questionable procedures of litigation and incarceration. Restorative Justice has its roots in indigenous societies, but its adaptations in modern society have been successful, including extensions of Transformative Justice that aim to redress historical and institutional injustice. Through readings, films, guest lectures, and role play, students learn the theory and methods of application of Restorative Justice from a range of historical cases. Min. Credits: 3.0 Credit Basis: Semester credit Location(s): Antioch University Method(s): Online (asynchronous) Faculty Consent Required: N Program Approval Required: N Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science

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HUM-1510: Independent Study: Humanities

HUM-2999: Individualized Study in the Humanities

HUM-3011: Ancient Civilization Africa to Asia

HUM-3012: Ancient Civ Middle E & Northrn Africa

HUM-3013: Far Eastern Civilizations

HUM-3022: Greek Civilization

HUM-3023: Roman Civilization

HUM-3030: Twenty-First Century Latin American Social Movements

HUM-3032: Early Jewish & Christian Heritages

HUM-3033: Early Islamic Heritage

HUM-3034: Early Jewish Heritage and Its Impact on Contemporary Society

HUM-3035: Early Christian Heritage and Its Impact On Contemporary Society

HUM-3036: Early Islamic Heritage and Its Impact on Contemporary Society

HUM-3040: Birds in the Field & Human Imagination

HUM-3042: Medieval and Renaissance Europe

HUM-3052: Colonialism

HUM-3053: Postcolonialism

HUM-3062: Indigenous Civ in Latin Amer & Caribbean

HUM-3063: Indiginous Civilizations of N America

HUM-3070: Borderlands: Exploring Identities and Borders

HUM-3090: Queer Perspectives: Applications in Contemporary Society

HUM-3100: Religious Worldviews: How Religion Constructs Our World

HUM-3110: LA Museums: Public Memory and Urban Narratives

HUM-3120: Contemporary Approaches to Social Studies

HUM-3140: Scholary Storytelling and Library Research

HUM-3160: Human Rights and Children

HUM-3230B: Addiction in Literature & Film

HUM-3240A: Jazz, Culture, and Politics in Community Arts Movements

HUM-3240B: Shakespeare Deconstructed: Gender and Power Play

HUM-3270: Constructions of Masculinity in America

HUM-3280: Capturing Stories: COVID-19

HUM-3280A: The Art of Humor

HUM-3290: Prophetic Voices, Future Visions

HUM-3310A: Symbols, Patterns, and the Cosmic Whole

HUM-3380: Picasso: Life and Work

HUM-3450: Foundations of Civilization

HUM-3480B: Gay & Lesbian History Through Documentary Film

HUM-3510: Independent Study

HUM-3530: Internship

HUM-3540: 19th Century American Utopian Communities

HUM-3600: Justice and Equity

HUM-3630B: Watching Black on Network Television: From Amos & Andy to Oprah

HUM-3650: Ethics in Counseling and Psychotherapy

HUM-3670B: The Narrative Method: Building Empathic Relationships

HUM-3680: Human Narrative and American Culture

HUM-3710: The Politics of Psychology

HUM-3710C: Politics of Psychology

HUM-3720: Latina/o/x Studies: the Culture & the Politics

HUM-3750: Critical Thinking About Contemporary Issues

HUM-3790A: Alternative Religious Movements

HUM-3800: Israel & Palestine: History, Literature and Media

HUM-3801: People’s History: Reading Zinn and Media

HUM-3810: Zen & Taoism

HUM-3820: Sacred Activism

HUM-3830W: Visions of Human Purpose in Literature: Love, Power and Resistance

HUM-3840: The Unified Field: A Web of Interconnection

HUM-3850A: Psychology of Love As the Path to Wholeness

HUM-3870: The Psychology of Fairy Tales

HUM-3870: The Psychology of Fairy Tales

HUM-3900AH: Genocide: Darfur, Armenia, and Bosnia

HUM-3900AU: Women in Contemporary Politics

HUM-3900AX: Occupy the Internet: A Labratory

HUM-3900AZ: Queer Theory

HUM-3900BB: Women & Islam

HUM-3900BD: Black Mexico: Recovering Mexico’s African Past