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University Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5150: Environmental Advocacy: The Essentials

    All environmental professionals, from conservation biologists to environmental educators, from climate change adaptation professionals to resource managers, need to understand the essentials of effective advocacy. Advocacy has been core to effective environmental outcomes for generations. We will learn through advocacy-based case studies, debates about the ethical role of advocacy relative to one’s career, and exploration of one’s personal relationship to advocacy. Our inquiry into the essentials of advocacy will draw from international scholarship on the nature and efficacy of advocacy. We will also consider how a range of actors, including scientists, environmental professionals, educators, and citizens, engage in effective advocacy for the promotion of positive environmental behavior, resilience, social justice, and sustainability outcomes. We will explore possible scenarios for advocacy in course participants’ own professional and civic engagement and in the organizations, communities, professional and personal networks, and polities with which they engage.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5171: Justice, Equity and the Environment

    Historically, social movements have been strongest when they involve large numbers of people who unite across social barriers such as race, class, and gender for a common purpose. Social movements are weakest, however, when the prejudices and power relationships of the larger society remain unchallenged within their own organizations. This situation often leaves the environmental movement vulnerable to ‘divide and conquer’ strategies by power-holders and reduces the creativity and effectiveness of environmental organizations by marginalizing the voices, insights, and potential contributions of women, people of color, working-class participants, or ethnic and religious minorities. Now, more than ever, building an environmental movement, and its constituent organizations, based on solid working relationships, a spirit of trust, shared interest, and solidarity across the social boundaries of race, gender, class, geography, and culture is a prerequisite for a lasting transition towards a more sustainable world. This class will focus on both the theory and practice of diversity, inclusion, and culture competence with a particular emphasis on: 1) understanding the dynamics of social oppression; 2) building effective relationships across difference; and 3) addressing power dynamics as well as the other challenges in creating diverse organizations and effective coalitions. Field Trip fee applies.
    Min. Credits: 2.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5191: Environmental Data Analysis

    This course encourages successful ecological field research by building skills in hypothesis generation, experimental design, data screening, use of correct statistical analyses, and effective presentation of results. Basic univariate parametric and non-parametric statistical procedures (chi-square and related tests; ANOVA; regression and correlation analyses, generalized linear models) are reviewed. Through lectures, in-class laboratory exercises using R, group homework projects, and analysis of quantitative methods used in current studies of conservation biology, students develop skills needed to design effective field research aimed at biodiversity conservation and natural lands management.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5210: Advanced Statistics and Data Management

    This course will provide students with a foundation in advanced statistics and data management commonly used in the fields of ecology and natural resource management. The class will build upon knowledge learned in the Biostatistics class for MS students, or the Research Strategies I class for PhD students, either of which is a prerequisite to take this advanced course. Students are expected to already be familiar with using R, as well as be familiar with classical tests (t-tests), contingency tables, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and simple and multiple linear regression.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Prerequisites: ES-5191: Biostatistics,ES-7270: Research Strategy I - Quantitative
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5240: Proposal Writing & Project Management

    The skills in this course will build a foundation for applying and winning grants or successfully responding to Requests for Proposals to conduct studies or providing consultant services for either public or provide sector clients. The course will focus on gaining competency in the three phases of the grants process: planning, research, and writing. Students will research and explore public and private funding sources appropriate to the human services and environmental fields. The criteria for selecting potential funding sources, the basic elements of a proposal, and developing successful collaborative efforts will be emphasized. Students will also be coached on how to develop effective collaborative partnership and research teams to enhance the likelihood of winning grants or contracts. Once a grant or project is secure the skills to effectively manage a project in order of prescribed timelines and budgets will be shared. This will include how to develop clear objectives, timelines, benchmarks and expectations for partners and subcontractors to the effort. *Additional contact hours will be met through online readings, discussions, and assignments.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5260: Advocacy: Applied Methods

    We will tackle theory, practice, and research as a means of understanding effective venues, strategies and tactics for advocacy. We will engage in ‘hands on’ opportunities to build skills, knowledge, experience, and demonstrated ability. We will explore the role of the environmental professional as advocate in the formation and implementation of public policy at a range of scales and domains: international, national, state, and local levels and within private sector organizations and industries. This includes an advanced discussion of the environmental professional as a change agent in social, political, and economic contexts, and the environmental professional’s roles within private and public sectors. Course participants will research an environmental issue, identify a theory of change, and create a roadmap for effective ways to achieve outcomes. Issues include biodiversity conservation, climate change, community resilience, environmental justice, food security, indigenous rights, and sustainable development.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5310: Principles of Organizational Management

    This course will provide an overview of the aspects that makes 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 foci: supply chains, human resources, financial administration, communication and clients. Students will gain theory in: power dynamics and ethical behavior within an organization, management/leadership styles that are exhibited across various types of organizations, team formation that allows a manager to effectively tap expertise in all aspects of an organization so to meet social value goals and revenue projections. Skill development in project management is at the heart of the course, including: communicating effectively, managing conflict, goal and objective setting, bench marking and time management.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5312: Introduction to Financial Management and Budgets

    This course will introduce both the language and construct of any organization’s financial framework. This foundational knowledge will allow you to be invited to the table when budgets are created that addresses complex challenges on the landscape.  Students will be introduced to the core three aspects of financial administration: 1) financial sustainability of an organization, reflected in the income statement (profit/loss statement) 2) the Achilles Heel of cash flow that can be the death of any organization 3) the factors informing financial management decisions for investing in new sustainable practice, including the discount rate, opportunity costs, and impact to supply chains and product demand. Related to these topics will be how to set up an internal enterprise fund to build upon initial financial successes
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5582: Research Seminar

    This course will prepare students for their Master’s thesis or project requirement by taking them through the steps of proposal conceptualization and development. Through reading, writing, discussions, and presentations, students will learn how to select and develop a research topic, improve their ability to successfully access and review relevant research and theory, understand the strengths of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, develop reasonable and testable hypotheses where appropriate, design appropriate methods for conducting research, and establish the necessary professional and academic relationships to support their work. The emphasis in this course is on quantitative life sciences research.
    Min. Credits: 2.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5600: Environmental Policy, Ecological Economics, and Sustainability

    The premise of this course is that human actions are embedded within the natural environment. The political and economic systems that have been developed to meet the needs of a society are framed by the limitations of that environment. This course will allow students to explore how these societal institutions function to deal with questions as freedom of choice, scarcity, ownership, equity, sustainability and change. The course will investigate the development of environmental policies as informed by science, economics, public opinion and legal precedent. Students will be introduced to the policy tools utilized to translate policy into implementation and how effective such approaches have been in meeting overall environmental policy objectives. The initial focus will be within the United State but innovative approaches that have been developed and utilized in other developed and developing economies will also be presented to the student.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5700: Climate Change-Resil/Adap/Mit

    Building upon the science presented in Earth Systems and Climate Change, this course is to increase student’s breadth and depth of understanding of, and discourse in, adaptation and mitigation strategies that span changes to technologies, management strategies and communication techniques that allow municipalities and organizations to effectively respond to a changing climate. The course will specifically build skills to recognize a community’s vulnerability and to locate resource, tools, expertize and case studies to assist local decision-makers to take actions to build a community’s resilience. Additional skill development includes operating under, and communicating uncertainty and risk in a manner that still allows actions to be taken. Students are also introduced to framing an economic argument that supports any adaptation or mitigation effort that is being recommended for a community. Finally, components of utilizing social media and development of a social marketing approach will be touched upon in the context of the psychological foundations of effectively communicating climate change to decision-makers and the general public.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5725: Earth Systems, Climate Change I

    This course will examine in detail the natural and anthropogenically-driven modes of variability in the global climate system at multiple scales of space and time. This course will prompt and allow students in the ISDCC concentration to focus specifically on the challenges, opportunities, and successes of addressing climate change at the international field-based sites and courses.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5728: Earth Systems, Climate Change II

    This course will support, and build on, the 1 cr Summer intensive Earth Systems and Climate Change course. It will examine the linked interactions between and among the geologic, atmospheric, hydrologic (marine and terrestrial), and pedologic global-to regional- to local dynamics of environmental change, through a student-based focus on global and local bioregionalism.
    Min. Credits: 2.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5750: Special Topics

    The Special Topics courses change from term to term according to student and program interests.
    Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5810: Climate Change: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk

    Human activity has exacerbated the shift in global climate and is resulting in impacts to natural systems and human-built infrastructure, which will influence future economic development and business decision-making. In the Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC concluded: “Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems” (IPCC, 2014a). These impacts include sea level rise, flooding, droughts, heat waves, and other extreme weather events. The concept of resilience associated with the ecological field has appeared in various discourses, and since Holling (1973), has had a substantial impact in the field. The term resilience has resulted in different interpretations by different fields of study. Since Holling (1973), there have been distinctions made between the uses in engineering, psychology, economics, disaster risk management, ecological, and socio-ecological resilience in the climate change discourse. Many municipal decision-makers tend to think of climate change preparedness as engineering resilience. They strive to return to or “bounce back” to what the community looked like and how it functioned prior to a disaster. However, this prior state may have included social injustice, inadequate public infrastructure and housing, other hazard vulnerability, and a weak local economy. Therefore it is important to define and recognize the aspects of resilience that involve “transformative socio-political change”. In addition, resilience needs to incorporate both the spatial and temporal scales to be successful and not result in mal-adaptive solutions. The glossary of the AR5-WGII report defines maladaptation as: “Actions that may lead to increased risk of adverse climate-related outcomes, increased vulnerability to climate change, or diminished welfare, now or in the future”. Unfortunately, there exists a myriad of climate responses that can increase resilience for one group, sector or geographic location while simultaneously increasing vulnerability for a different system, location or group of individuals. This module consists of foundational knowledge in the science of our changing climate, understanding the boundaries of “uncertainty” in future projections being posited by the scientific community, how to translate the “risk” being faced by a community, business, or sector, and finally, the different concepts of climate resilience and how they manifest as solutions.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5820: Climate Impacts: Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning

    Local and regional governments are leaders in climate change due to their unique position to make a wide range of decisions that can mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. Because they are on the frontline, many communities have conducted vulnerability assessments and engaged in adaptation planning. This module will enable participants to assess impacts to a business, community, or sector based on specific climate projections for a specific locale. This focuses on identifying what and who are most vulnerable to such impacts, which requires the ability to facilitate a stakeholder process to prioritize these identified vulnerabilities, including with respect to business supply chains, and actionable responses. This module will also provide you with the overview of planning for resiliency and adaptation at different scales. After this module, you should feel comfortable knowing what steps need to be taken to integrate resiliency recommendations and projects into community planning and policy processes.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5830: Climate Impacts: Communication, Facilitation, and Stakeholder Capacity Building

    There is broad scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and is caused by human actions. However, there is limited implementation of climate adaptation to help create resilient local communities. Local and regional governments have access to a wide range of resources that can help them become more resilient to climate impacts. Even with this information, communities still face significant barriers bridging the gap from planning to action. In fact, the US Third National Climate Assessment lists implementation as the number one significant gap in the success of adaptation. In order to overcome many of these barriers at the local level, civic engagement is needed to support municipal implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation actions. Engagement is a broad term that is often a precursor toward a specific action or behavior. In order to sufficiently engage the public on climate change, it is important to understand how people relate to this issue. In particular, what prompts individuals to take action or become involved in an issue. If we are looking for community members to collaboratively solve complex issues to achieve climate resilience, then we need to have a thorough understanding why people engage in an issue or specific behaviors. Collective actions at the societal level (civic or political action behaviors) include involvement and support of policies, plans, and funding for implementation of municipal projects that could increase local climate resilience. Community engagement with the issue of climate change typically is lacking at the local level. How individuals feel about climate change, how much they know about the issue, and how they act are all types of engagement that are needed for societal change. Research indicates a range of predictors that affect engagement, including emotions, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, identities, knowledge, worldviews and values, personal efficacy, response efficacy, mental models, meaningfulness, habits, routines, and social and cultural context. This module will provide guidance on how to effectively engage the general pubic in order to build the political will and public support needed for implementation. Learn how to identify and implement an effective communication and engagement strategy through evidence-based tactics, including a stakeholder process that can be used to develop place based responses. The course will also touch on the inequity of impact to populations due to climate change and build understanding of the social justice ramifications associated with climate change vulnerabilities.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5840: Business Resilience and Continuity

    Flooding, drought, wildfires and sea-level storm surges are threatening the sustainability of businesses and the safety of those organizations’ personnel. US Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg published Risky Business to hi-light the near term impact to businesses and the economy from a changing climate. One projection made from that report is that within the next 15 years, the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico could see a $ 35 billion loss from hurricanes and other coastal storms combined with a rising sea level. The economic impact from 2017 wildfire season was more than 85 billion dollars, and the 2018 season is projected to exceed that. Our changing climate is fueling the frequency and severity of the impacts we are experiencing in the United States and businesses need to plan and prepare for the possibility of extended closures, supply chain disruption and employees at risk. This module will address what businesses should do to reduce their vulnerability to climate mediate impacts and build resilience in their organization, and for their employees, so they can “bounce-back” quickly after any unforeseen disruption. Topics to be addressed will include: securing data, building resilience upstream in supply chains, having access to sources of credit, working downstream with clients, developing plans for staffing and reducing the vulnerability of employees.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5850: Climate Response: Costs and Financing

    Already communities are being impacted by a changing climate: the flooding of communities along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast due to sea-level rise, the long-term droughts in the South and Upper Midwest, the wildfires and subsequent landslides in the West and the hospitalization and associated deaths from extreme temperatures in cities due to extreme temperatures. In responding to such climate-mediated impacts there are three leading criteria in choosing a response strategy: effectiveness of any specific recommendation, ease of implementation and costs. This module focuses on the associated costs analyses that should accompany any on-the-ground response to projected climate impacts. Marginal cost analysis will be covered, as well as dollar-based valuation approaches, including avoided damage costs, replacement costs and substitution costs. The issue of financially discounting the future in light of inaction will be addressed. Finally, funding sources and financing strategies will be introduced.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5860: Climate Justice and Equitable Adaptation

    Climate change disproportionately affects communities of color and communities facing poverty. This module will focus on understanding how the intersections of social injustice and climate change can intensify the effect of climate impacts in communities that have been historically marginalized. This course will train current and future resilience professionals to work in a more inclusive manner with diverse constituencies and to advocate for and implement strategies that yield more equitable outcomes. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about equitable adaptation strategies and tools, as well as on-the ground case studies from a community-based perspective. Participants will learn process oriented methods and outcome oriented strategies for integrating equity considerations into climate resilience initiatives in various settings, as well as developing interpersonal and leadership skills that will allow them to effectively support equitable outcomes in their work.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5870: Climate Change: Public Health

    Human activity has exacerbated the shift in global climate and is resulting in impacts to natural systems and human-built infrastructure, which will influence future economic development and business decision-making. In the Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC concluded: “Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems” (IPCC, 2014a). These impacts include sea level rise, flooding, droughts, heat waves, and other extreme weather events. This module consists of foundational knowledge in the science of our changing climate, understanding the boundaries of “uncertainty” in future projections being posited by the scientific community, how to translate the “risk” being faced by a community, business, or sector, and finally, the different concepts of climate resilience and how they manifest as solutions.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5890: Global Cultural Awareness & Literacy

    This course is designed for students who are willing to critically analyze the concept of global citizenship in an increasingly connected world full of social, political, and environmental challenges. We will draw on recent research on this topic and examine the importance of certain skills for global cultural awareness, literacy and education, and subsequently focus on cross-cultural communication skills as part of being a globally oriented citizen of the 21st century. This course will help students appreciate the complexity and dynamics involved in globalization and the legacies of Western imperialism, enhance students’ self-reflection of their own culture in relation to other cultures, and develop a cross-cultural understanding of other societies. Additionally, the multidisciplinary nature of this course provides opportunity for multilevel discussions and interventions. Students are encouraged to be reflexive and self-interrogative, and they are challenged to relate to their own national, cultural, and personal context. Particular ideas and specific wishes from the students are, of course, largely respected.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous),Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5900: Communications in the Digital Age

    How can digital and social media be used to educate, advocate, bridge social divides, and change environmental policies and behaviors? Are such technologies even suitable to these purposes? How can we be inclusive in our use of online communication when the majority of the world’s population has limited or no access to computers? What are appropriate technologies for various instructional needs in an era of globalization? This course covers current issues in educational technology and practical applications of 21st century technological skills essential for environmental leaders and educators in the digital age. Participants will explore theories, research, and innovative approaches to the use of technology in Environmental Education and Environmental Communications. Students will become familiar with strategies to use technology effectively in various environmental studies contexts.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-5980: School Law

    This is a seminar designed to provide knowledge about school law and the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, age or handicapping condition. Through lecture, case discussion, and debate, students will be able to understand the theoretical underpinnings of egalitarian social reform, the differences between public policy, and the principal components and content of relevant policy documents as well as the benefits and limitations of policy in this area.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6000: Collabortv Service Init-Capstone Projct

    The Collaborative Service Initiative (CSI) course provides students, with faculty oversight, work on an applied external project. This can include applied ecological or social research, energy and materials management, evaluation, or other consultation projects. These projects are completed over the course of a semester by teams of 3 to 5 graduate students with guidance and support from AUNE faculty and staff. Students participate in the selection of potential projects and team formation during the semester preceding their CSI project. Each team chooses one of the proposed external partner projects and then collaborates with this partner organization to develop a defined scope of work, seek solutions to the client-identified challenges, and provide high quality deliverables. The CSI experience will provide an experiential learning opportunity for students and deepen their engagement with a community partner. *Additional contact hours will be met through online readings, discussions and assignments.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6010: Principles of Sustainable Systems

    This course will introduce foundational scientific laws that govern sustainability in all complex systems and then take students through a process to investigate how such paradigmatic principles apply to any business organizational structure and operation. Specific laws to be examined will include the law of limits to growth, the second law of thermodynamics, and the law of self-organization. An aspect of complexity will be the treatment of the emergence of limits 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.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6020: Comparative Ecological Analysis

    This course is designed to provide participants with the methods and strategies needed to apply ecological principles in research. Interpretive tools, research methods, and theoretical approaches include basic statistical analysis and design, field ecology techniques, and computer models or simulations. Using ecological principles as a foundation, other approaches such as natural resource inventory, ecological impact assessment, and ecological restoration are covered. The course has a case study orientation, emphasizing contemporary ecological problems in diverse habitats, exploring the common problems and solutions that emerge. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6030: Land Use and Protection Techniques For Resource Managers

    Whether your professional goal is to work for a land trust, a planning agency or working within an environmental consulting firm, or even for an NGO such as The Nature Conservancy or Trust For Public Lands this course provides the necessary foundation of theory and skills on how to effectively approach land preservation, conservation, restoration or mitigation of the impacts of human development to natural ecosystems and the environment. This course builds an understanding of the union of the landscape attributes of geology, soils, hydrology and the location of distinct natural communities in order to inform decisions about appropriate land use and natural resource management policies to implement in specific locations. As part of this course, students will become familiar with, and receive specific emphasis on planning techniques that avoid and mitigate impacts to the natural environment from land development decisions. The course will necessarily take into account projected impacts to the landscape exacerbated by a changing climate.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6100: Geographic Info Systems (GIS) Advanced

    This course focuses on using real world examples and exercises to provide instruction on creating spatial models and predictive models, analyzing spatial patterns and dependence, deriving landscape and terrain variables as input for modeling, and creating professionally attractive maps using time-aware data. The course is intended for candidates from fields ranging from conservation and environmental sciences, business administration, urban planning and sustainability, advocacy and social justice. The content for this course includes raster data manipulation, analysis and interpretation, advanced data editing, regression, suitability The content for this course includes raster data manipulation, analysis and interpretation, advanced data editing, regression, suitability and hotspot analysis, change detection, spatial distribution models, environmental assessment, and impact analysis, and human footprint analysis. ArcGIS Desktop, Quantum GIS, gvSIG, Google Earth, InVest, and Maxent, in combination with statistical packages such as SPSS will be used. To take this course, candidates are required to have successfully completed the first section of the certificate program. This is a hybrid course which can be taken completely on line. Students local to the AUNE campus may attend onsite during online sessions.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England,Antioch Univ Los Angeles
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6105: Geographic Info Systems(GIS) Applied

    This course focuses on real-world applications of GIS. The students translate knowledge and applied GIS skills into problem-solving applications on the ground, working with a client. A student will spend a month with a client. The workload should total a minimum of 140 hours which includes check-in and troubleshooting meetings with the instructor. The candidate works under joint supervision from both the client and the course instructor. At the end of the course, the GIS certificate candidate is expected to provide a final project report including GIS deliverables (maps, models, processed data, etc.) to the client according to the terms of the agreement between the client and the course instructor. At the end of the course, the student should be able to: -Apply various GIS spatial analysis tools in a variety of platforms including ArcGIS, QGIS, DNRGPS and GPS to solve a real-world problem -Use cartography/map design principles to produce effective maps and communicate effectively with the audience. -Work independently on GIS Projects to meet information needs from a client -Collect, manage, organize, update and share GIS data professionally
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England,Antioch Univ Los Angeles
    Method(s): Classroom
    Prerequisites: ES-5100: Geog Info Sys (GIS),ES-6100: Geog Info Sys (GIS) Advanced
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6200: Introduction to Participatory GIS

    What comes to mind when you think of a map? In a purely functionalist sense, a map is a conventional picture of the Earth’s pattern as seen from above. However, maps are more than representations. They can be tools for government (e.g. geopolitics) or a means for people who want to change the way we think about the world (eg. counter-mapping). Consequently, the ability to produce comprehensible and meaningful maps that include spatial, political, and socio-economic data is an increasingly important skill in a variety of fields from governance to social networking and advocacy. This course will offer a comprehensive introduction to both the technical and the practical aspects of map-making, from using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to produce maps to Community-Based approaches for populating them. It will train students to think critically and creatively about visually representing our world through maps by exploring topics on spatial datasets, cartography, collaborative mapping, and basic GIS software, and learning how these skills can be leveraged to conduct effective Participatory GIS projects.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6210: Participatory Action Research

    Participatory action research (PAR) offers environmental professionals an approach to collaborate with communities to analyze social-ecological issues and take collective action to foster positive change. PAR brings together research, community organizing, and project design and management. This course will focus on the theory and principles that inform PAR as well as specific methods and skills needed to carry out PAR in practice. Particular attention will be paid to topics including cultural humility, incorporating multiple ways of knowing, and issues of equity and power. Students will explore approaches to relationship building, participatory data collection and analysis, and community-level action. Students will consider how PAR principles and approaches can enhance their ongoing masters study and their future careers.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6810: Research Project - Peace Corps

    Master’s International Program register for Research Project during their Peace Corps service. In fulfillment of the Research Project, students will design and conduct the fieldwork associated with their master’s thesis research or project.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6820: Research Project II - Peace Corps

    RMC students in the Master’s International Program must register for this additional section of SIS Research Project. In fulfillment of the Research Project, students will design and conduct the fieldwork associated with their master’s thesis research or project.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6900: SIS-Elective

    Faculty approved contract required
    Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 6.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Independent Study
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6910: Internship in Life Sciences Teaching

    The purpose of our seminar is to provide you with logistical, moral, and pedagogical support. During this time, we’ll trouble-shoot problems, explore discipline issues, share curriculum ideas, muse about the value of homework, consider record keeping strategies, support your job search, and play with other issues as they emerge. You will need a high-speed connection, web-cam, and headset with microphone and headphones for the online video-conferencing component of this course.
    Min. Credits: 6.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Student Teaching
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6920: Internship Middle Level Science Teachng

    The purpose of our seminar is to provide you with logistical, moral, and pedagogical support. During this time, we’ll trouble-shoot problems, explore discipline issues, share curriculum ideas, muse about the value of homework, consider record keeping strategies, support your job search, and play with other issues as they emerge. We will meet on most Thursday afternoons via Adobe Connect Pro, an online video-conferencing tool. You will be sent a link before the semester begins. You will need a high-speed connection, web-cam, and headset with microphone and headphones.
    Min. Credits: 6.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Student Teaching
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6940: Life Sci & Mid Lev Sci Teach

    The purpose of our seminar is to provide you with logistical, moral, and pedagogical support. During this time, we’ll trouble-shoot problems, explore discipline issues, share curriculum ideas, muse about the value of homework, consider record keeping strategies, support your job search, and play with other issues as they emerge. We will meet on most Thursday afternoons via Adobe Connect Pro, an online video-conferencing tool. You will be sent a link before the semester begins. You will need a high-speed connection, web-cam, and headset with microphone and headphones.
    Min. Credits: 6.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Student Teaching
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6960: Professional Internship

    The Internship provides students with an opportunity to apply, in an organizational setting, what they are learning and to develop professional contacts within their fields of interest. While students are responsible for locating internships, faculty members are available to provide support and information as needed.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Student Teaching
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6960X: Internship & Seminar Continuation

    This course is a continuation of ES-6960. The Internship provides students with an opportunity to apply, in an organizational setting, what they are learning and to develop professional contacts within their fields of interest. While students are responsible for locating internships, faculty members are available to provide support and information as needed.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Student Teaching
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6975: Masters Thesis Research

    This course is designed for ES master’s students who are pursuing a Master’s Thesis capstone and who will conduct extensive independent thesis research beyond that of other capstone courses. Students considering this course option would make the decision in close consultation with their academic and thesis advisers. This course fulfills 3-credits of the ES methods courses requirement.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6980: Internship for Mas Intl - Peace Corps

    The Internship provides students with an opportunity to apply, in an organizational setting, what they are learning and to develop professional contacts within their fields of interest. Major projects that students undertake as part of their Peace Corps service will serve as the basis for their internships.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Field Study
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6980X: Peace Corps Svc: Continuation

    This course provideds Doctoral and Master’s students serving in the Peace Corps extended opportunity to complete their course work and projects while abroad. Students should register for Peace Corps Service: Continuation during semesters when they are not taking any others courses.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Field Study
    Either Previous or Concurrent: ES-6980: Internship for MI-Peace Corps
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6990: Master’s Project / Thesis

    The individual master’s capstone can be either a Master’s Project or Master’s Thesis. The Master’s Project or Thesis represents the culmination of a student’s work at Antioch and often reflects the student’s particular focus of study and future professional interest. The goals, content and format of the Master’s Project or Thesis must be approved by the student’s concentration or program director and the ES Department faculty member who has agreed to evaluate the final document before registering.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6990X: Master’s Proj/Thesis Continuation

    Required for all students continuing a Master’s Project or Thesis for which they have previously registered. Students must register for Master’s Project/Thesis Continuation every semester until the Project/Thesis has been completed and signed off by faculty. Enrollment in Master’s Project/Thesis Continuation confers half-time status for Financial Aid and loan deferment purposes.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-6995: Climate Resilience Capstone

    This Capstone represents the culmination of a student’s work across the previous six, 1-credit courses required for the graduate certificate. The Capstone is an opportunity to take theory and skills presented in these courses and apply them to a real-world challenge identified by the student. The type of challenges identified is quite broad considering the multiplicity of potential impacts from a changing climate to the natural and human built infrastructure and institutions. But the Capstone necessarily must be framed so that specific identified objectives can be met within a 15 week period. Within the first weeks of the course, the goals, content, format and timeline of the Capstone must be framed and submitted to the instructor for approval, which requires students to review the Capstone guidelines document and develop a draft before the course formally begins.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7000: Ecological Thought

    Ecological Thought engages participants in the work of cultural criticism through engagement with ecological worldviews. Where do our ideas about nature come from, and how do they limit our agency, or liberate our communities? From embodied perception to cultural construction, how do we interpret, inherit, revise and share the stories we tell about self, other, nature? To gain familiarity with critical theory in environmental context, students will focus on ‘nature writing’ through texts as diverse as the autobiography, Main Street, parks, environmental advocacy, ecotourism, and museum exhibits. This course emphasizes the development of communication skills, including application of concepts and tools in rhetoric and discourse to the creation and interpretation of traditional and contemporary environmental texts as well as visual forms, such as architecture and design, and new media.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7025: Principles of Ecology

    This course is designed to provide participants with the methods and strategies needed to apply ecological principles in research. Interpretive tools, research methods, and theoretical approaches include basic statistical analysis and design, field ecology techniques, and computer models or simulations. Using ecological principles as a foundation, other approaches such as natural resource inventory, ecological impact assessment, and ecological restoration are covered. The course has a case study orientation, emphasizing contemporary ecological problems in diverse habitats, exploring the common problems and solutions that emerge. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7030: Global Environmental Change

    This course focuses on the natural and anthropogenic transformations of earth’s environment, transformations whose underlying processes occur across a multiplicity of space and time scales and whose nonlinear interrelationships complicate prediction. Global environmental change has conditioned the earth for life, but human economic and population growth have dramatically accelerated environmental change during the past two centuries. We will examine long-term records of environmental change and the array of approaches and methods employed to understand evolution and behavior of the earth system, in order to contextualize historic and recent trends. Assessment of global change models and scenarios will provide information critical for evaluating the magnitude and significance of human forcing of change, ecosystem and societal vulnerability, and approaches to sustainability. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7040: Environmental History

    This course examines the historical, cultural, and philosophical origins of our concepts of the environment. This course provides an overview of the environmental history of New England, the US, and world environmental history. Students participate in many approaches to history, from historiographical, social, political, and literary history to artistic approaches. In this course, students develop a framework for understanding how our conception of the environment has changed through time, and strengthen their understanding of how historical and philosophical issues engage and inform current debates. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7050: Political Economy & Sustainability

    Political economy seeks to explain how political institutions, the economic system, applied sciences, and social movements interact over time. This course will focus on how these dynamics generate varied outcomes in relation to the goals of sustainability, justice, and economic well-being. Students will examine the political and economic roots of the global sustainability crisis. Students will assess political and economic reforms, policy processes, and policy tools that might yield better outcomes. Students will also develop a greater understanding of possible action strategies from within civil society, the business sector, government, and/or international bodies for creating a transition toward a more sustainable society. Students will explore theories, evidence, and controversies associated with the political, social, cultural, and/or economic dimensions of a specific topic relevant to their doctoral interests. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7060: Dissertation Advising

    The ES-PhD program is a research degree that is founded upon careful planning, conducting, and completing a significant interdisciplinary environmental studies research project that leads to the completion of a dissertation. Each term the student is required to work with the course instructor (their Dissertation Advisor) during their progress in planning, conducting, and completing their dissertation research. Their work with their Dissertation Advisor can include: 1) planning their Learning Domain courses, 2) choosing their dissertation committee members, 3) developing and defending their dissertation proposal, 4) finalizing dissertation research methodology, 5) completing the IRB process 6) identifying research site(s), 7) conducting their field research and data collection, 8) reviewing research results, 9) writing their dissertation, 10) defending their dissertation, and 11) formal depositing of their dissertation. The instructor (Dissertation Advisor) will assess the student’s work as either “Pass” or “No Pass.” For the student to receive a “Pass” they will need to demonstrate satisfactory progress in one or more of these areas as described in more detail in the ES-PhD Doctoral Student Handbook.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7070: Intro Research Dsgn

    The purpose of this course is to become familiar with a variety of research paradigms and to study the different lenses that they provide for viewing and understanding both physical and social phenomena. Environmental Studies, as well as other AUNE faculty will join us each day to support you in designing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting your findings of original mini-studies that reflect different research paradigms. These experiences will ground discussions of theory in the practical concerns of research and help inform the initial development of a research proposal that interests and excites you.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7200: Reading Seminar I

    The purpose of the reading seminars is to allow students and faculty to engage in reading and writing on topics of mutual interest. During the Spring of Year One, faculty (in consultation with students) develop a list of proposed seminars, reflecting their own interests and the emerging areas of interest in the learning community. During the Summer of Year Two, students and faculty select the reading topics that are of most interest. In effect, the learning community constructs these specialized seminars. Reading seminars are particularly useful as a way to study bodies of knowledge and substantive themes that are of community wide interest. Additional contact hours will be met by specific course work designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7260: Doctoral Learning Domain Seminar

    A series of lectures and workshops in this course are designed to provide students with the intellectual depth and research tools to define their learning domain. The students will engage in library research to fill out their individual knowledge maps, and the attendant literature on theoretical and applied dimensions of the thought collectives, theories, research applications and controversies associated with the learning domain. Students will discuss their work with leading scholars and writers and learn how others set the framework for and carry out their research. By the end of the course, students will have produced a blueprint to guide their learning through the coming year. Additional contact hours will be met by specific course work designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7270: Research Strategy I - Quantitative

    The Research Strategies course is divided into two parts, e (Research Strategies I) and (Research Strategies II). Graduates of our program will be able to create new knowledge and understanding through the process of research and inquiry. This course helps students develop the skills needed to achieve this goal. The emphasis during Research Strategy 1 course is on positivist research and quantitative approaches to research: how to develop hypotheses, evaluation of research designs, sampling approaches, introductory statistics, and validity. In this class we focus on positivist research studies. Applications will come from both the social and natural sciences. Attention will be given to defining variables, designing experiments, and interpreting statistical analyses. Additional contact hours will be met by specific course work designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7280: Research Strategy II - Qualitative

    Qualitative inquiry has a unique capacity to describe social behavior and process, uncover causal linkages, interpret meaning and significance, and build robust, empirical theory. Doing qualitative research involves more than mastering technical aspects of methods. It also requires grounding methodological decisions in a theoretical perspective and engaging ethical and political dimensions of doing research with others in social settings. This course offers an introduction to qualitative inquiry as it applies to environmental studies and related phenomena. It explores the philosophical underpinnings of particular traditions (e.g., ethnography, grounded theory) and builds practical competence with specific research skills (e.g., interviews, observation, field notes, analysis). Additional contact hours will be met by specific course work designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7290: Doctoral Learning Domain Seminar II

    The purpose of this seminar is to provide an opportunity for students to engage their learning domain in the larger academic discourse and to delve into aspects of their learning domain that have not been addressed in reading circles, courses or independent studies. Students will concentrate on developing critical reading and writing skills, and will create a piece of writing for publication. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7310: Doctoral Learning Domain Project I

    Students will register for a Learning Domain Project in order to conduct an in-depth exploration of an area of scholarship integral to their dissertation work. This independent study may be used to master a body of literature crucial to a student’s future research, although conducting primary research, learning research methods, or writing are also possible. Each student consults with his or her advisor and their Learning Domain Plan in preparing this project. Projects could include readings, discussions with an advisor or mentor, formal course work, or research work. The project must be designed and described in detail to indicate objectives, specific activities, weekly and monthly readings, assignment due dates, products, and methods of evaluation.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7320: Doctoral Learning Domain Project II

    Students will register for a Learning Domain Project in order to conduct an in-depth exploration of an area of scholarship integral to their dissertation work. This independent study may be used to master a body of literature crucial to a student’s future research, although conducting primary research, learning research methods, or writing are also possible. Each student consults with his or her advisor and their Learning Domain Plan in preparing this project. Projects could include readings, discussions with an advisor or mentor, formal course work, or research work. The project must be designed and described in detail to indicate objectives, specific activities, weekly and monthly readings, assignment due dates, products, and methods of evaluation.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7330: Doctoral Learning Domain Project III

    Students will register for a Learning Domain Project in order to conduct an in-depth exploration of an area of scholarship integral to their dissertation work. This independent study may be used to master a body of literature crucial to a student’s future research, although conducting primary research, learning research methods, or writing are also possible. Each student consults with his or her advisor and their Learning Domain Plan in preparing this project. Projects could include readings, discussions with an advisor or mentor, formal course work, or research work. The project must be designed and described in detail to indicate objectives, specific activities, weekly and monthly readings, assignment due dates, products, and methods of evaluation.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7340: Doctoral Learning Domain Project IV

    Students will register for a Learning Domain Project in order to conduct an in-depth exploration of an area of scholarship integral to their dissertation work. This independent study may be used to master a body of literature crucial to a student’s future research, although conducting primary research, learning research methods, or writing are also possible. Each student consults with his or her advisor and their Learning Domain Plan in preparing this project. Projects could include readings, discussions with an advisor or mentor, formal course work, or research work. The project must be designed and described in detail to indicate objectives, specific activities, weekly and monthly readings, assignment due dates, products, and methods of evaluation.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7350: Learning Domain Project V

    Students will register for a Learning Domain Project in order to conduct an in-depth exploration of an area of scholarship integral to their dissertation work. This independent study may be used to master a body of literature crucial to a student’s future research, although conducting primary research, learning research methods, or writing are also possible. Each student consults with his or her advisor and their Learning Domain Plan in preparing this project. Projects could include readings, discussions with an advisor or mentor, formal course work, or research work. The project must be designed and described in detail to indicate objectives, specific activities, weekly and monthly readings, assignment due dates, products, and methods of evaluation.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7360: Candidacy Prep & Service Lrng Seminar

    Competency Area: Dissertation Required ES PhD 3 who have completed all requirements for Phases 1 & 2 The Candidacy Preparation and Service Learning Seminar is designed for assisting students to critically review their learning domain projects, writing skills, and preparing for the Qualifying Exam and Dissertation Proposal phases of their doctoral work. It provides students with an opportunity to discuss the meaning of scholarship and service as they prepare for and engage in their service projects, and to examine their research interests in the context of the community setting. Students propose and develop their service learning goals and objectives, considering the moral and ethical dimensions of their work. In addition, the seminar poses questions regarding the theoretical and practical dimensions of service learning, with selected readings about the philosophy, sociology, and experience of service. Through the seminar, students engage with questions about claims to knowledge, the role of the expert, the relationship between scholarship and political action, the political context of environmental research, and issues of professional identity and public scholarship. What are the special problems encountered by the environmental researcher who is actively involved in community projects? What is the role of scholarship for the activist? How might research contribute to social change and environmental action?
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom,Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7520: Doctoral Service Project

    The Service Learning Project is an intensive practicum project that involves a form of environmental or social service in a community context. The project may occur at any time during the third year of the program. Students should register for Service Project during the semester in which the bulk of the work will be done. For more specific information about the service project, please see the Doctoral Program Guide. Note: The Service Project does not meet as a course. The project is discussed in the Service Learning Seminar. The student receives credit upon satisfactory completion of the Service Project essay. Students must arrange meeting time with instructor.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7710: Doctoral Qualifying Exam

    The Qualifying Exam is the culmination of the learning domain. It is an opportunity for students to organize, interpret, and amplify their core scholarly interests. The essay is essentially a literature review which demonstrates the ability to synthesize and conceptualize knowledge, to contribute new ideas to an emerging field of study, to express the theoretical and practical significance of these ideas, and to consider their consequences of scholarship, research and/or professional practice. The purpose of the Qualifying Exam is to cultivate those insights, by exploring them in depth, tracing their formulation, development, and application. The Qualifying Exam does not meet as a course.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7740: Dissertation Proposal Seminar

    This seminar allows students to devote themselves to developing and refining the research questions that are the foundation of a dissertation, and to exploring, analyzing and critiquing methods specific to their research interests with the purpose of selecting the methods they will employ. Upon completion of this seminar students should have completed or be very close to completing a draft research proposal, which sets forth the nature of their dissertation inquiry and a detailed account of the methods to be used. Since the proposal also contains material supporting the relevance of the dissertation topic and the appropriateness of the chosen methods, the seminar will also focus on the organization of literature surveys and the identification of key references that serve as models for the specific dissertation work. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7750: Candidacy Continuation

    The Candidacy Continuation semester is designed for students who need additional time to complete their doctoral candidacy projects. During this semester they continue to work independently with faculty as needed to complete their Doctoral Service Project/Service Learning Seminar, Integrated Essay/Qualifying Exam, and/or Dissertation Proposal.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-7760: Dissertation Seminar

    This year-long seminar is designed to provide support and consultation for students in the process of formulating and carrying out their doctoral dissertation research. Topics to be addressed during the year include: ongoing evaluation and assessment of research methods, research ethics, dilemmas of working in the field, analysis, writing the dissertation, making formal presentations, dissemination of research results, and transformations you experience in your growth as a scholar. Students along with the instructors are intended to serve as a peer community, providing support, advice, and critique. Each semester, students will make a formal presentation to the class documenting the current state of their research and bringing to the class the expertise they have developed. Additional faculty may be brought in as needed to provide input in special topic areas. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-8900: SIS-Doctoral Elective


    Min. Credits: 1.0 Max Credits: 4.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Independent Study
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-8990: Doctoral Dissertation

    Students who are actively engaged in writing the doctoral dissertation are required to register for these credits. You cannot register for this class unless your dissertation proposal has been approved by your committee.
    Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ES-8990X: Doctoral Dissertation Continuation


    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Thesis / Dissertation
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5440: Leadership for Change

    Leadership for change is the art of structuring organizations and collaboration, building morale and vision, and facilitating group deliberation and decision-making to guide effective policy-setting and organizational work that makes a positive difference at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, field, and societal levels. This course will help students’ develop the skills and understandings that support leadership that is adaptive, inclusive, participatory, collaborative, culturally competent, and effective. Participants in this class will be challenged to explore 1) personal leadership competencies and styles; 2) group dynamics, inclusion, and team facilitation; 3) strategies for engaging diverse stakeholders; and 4) the capacity of creative leadership to facilitate large-scale systemic change.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5500: Community Ecology/New England Landscape

    This course examines the diversity of plant communities found in central New England with special attention to the impact of topography, substrate, and disturbance regimes on community composition and structure as a means to understand ecological community dynamics in any part of the world. As a largely field-based course, both qualitative and quantitative means will be used to describe community composition and structure, as well as the reasons for community placement. Ecocindicator species will be used to delineate specific topographic and edaphic sites, while evidence of various disturbances will be used to interpret successional patterns as a means for reading the landscape. The course will have a strong grounding in concepts related to community ecology including dominance, diversity, niche structuring, and succession. Skills in plant community sampling, soil interpretation, and plant identification will also be developed. A number of outstanding representatives of community types in the central Connecticut River watershed will be visited.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5501: Community Ecology: the Natural History of Lake Superior

    Field Naturalists explore and focus at both organism and system levels. Throughout the year via personal projects, guided mentoring, workshops, field trips, and select readings, we will collect data and stories relevant to the North Woods in the Lake Superior Region. Though our efforts will be narrowed to this region, we will develop natural history skills and knowledge applicable in any region. Ultimately we will explore and develop observation, study, and documenting habits necessary for professional naturalists in any place or time.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5501X: Community Ecology: the Natural History of Lake Superior Continuation

    This course is a continuation of ESC 5501. Field Naturalists explore and focus at both organism and system levels. Throughout the year via personal projects, guided mentoring, workshops, field trips, and select readings, we will collect data and stories relevant to the North Woods in the Lake Superior Region. Though our efforts will be narrowed to this region, we will develop natural history skills and knowledge applicable in any region. Ultimately we will explore and develop observation, study, and documenting habits necessary for professional naturalists in any place or time.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5720: Earth Systems & Climate Change

    This course employs a systems approach to understanding earth’s physical and biological environment by examining the large-scale components and processes of the earth system. Understanding the interaction of these elements and their natural variability in space and time is critical for assessing the rates, drivers, and consequences of environmental change. Content will emphasize climate change dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and land use patterns and their feedback relationships with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, pedosphere and biosphere.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom,Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5725: Earth Systems & Climate Change I

    This course will examine in detail the natural and anthropogenically-driven modes of variability in the global climate system at multiple scales of space and time. This course will prompt and allow students in the ISDCC concentration to focus specifically on the challenges, opportunities, and successes of addressing climate change at the international field-based sites and courses.
    Min. Credits: 1.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom,Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-5728: Earth Systems & Climate Change II

    This course will support, and build on, the 1 cr Summer intensive Earth Systems and Climate Change course. It will examine the linked interactions between and among the geologic, atmospheric, hydrologic (marine and terrestrial), and pedologic global-to regional- to local dynamics of environmental change, through a student-based focus on global and local bioregionalism.
    Min. Credits: 2.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESC-6010: Political Economy & Sustainability

    Political economy seeks to explain how political institutions, the economic system, applied sciences, and social movements interact over time. This course will focus on how these dynamics generate varied outcomes in relation to the goals of sustainability, justice, and economic well-being. Students will examine the political and economic roots of the global sustainability crisis. Students will assess political and economic reforms, policy processes, and policy tools that might yield better outcomes. Students will also develop a greater understanding of possible action strategies from within civil society, the business sector, government, and/or international bodies for creating a transition toward a more sustainable society. *Doctoral students will explore theories, evidence, and controversies associated with the political, social, cultural, and/or economic dimensions of a specific topic relevant to their doctoral interests. Additional contact hours will be met by specific coursework designed to be completed online.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom,Online (asynchronous)
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5020: Foundations of Environmental Education and Sustainability

    This course will provide a broad overview of the Environmental Education movement by constructing a working definition of its goals and the various manifestations of those goals within local, regional, state, national and international organizations. We will explore the personal values that drive people to choose environmental education as a profession and look at the implications of that choice on lifestyle, civic participation, relationships and work-life. Students will predict possible future scenarios for environmental educators and their role in the organizations that support their efforts.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5020X: Foundations of Environmental Education and Sustainability Continuation

    This course is a continuation of ESE-5020. This course will provide a broad overview of the Environmental Education movement by constructing a working definition of its goals and the various manifestations of those goals within local, regional, state, national and international organizations. We will explore the personal values that drive people to choose environmental education as a profession and look at the implications of that choice on lifestyle, civic participation, relationships and work-life. Students will predict possible future scenarios for environmental educators and their role in the organizations that support their efforts.
    Min. Credits: 0.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5060: Program Evaluation for Environmental and Conservation Education

    Program evaluation is an essential (& marketable) skill among environmental education and conservation professionals. Evaluation can help stakeholders make informed decisions, gain insights into the merit of a given initiative and contribute to continual program improvement. students’ design an evaluation of their choosing and work together to complete an evaluation with an external client. In conjunction with these practical applications, this course will explore such topics as: evaluation purposes, using logic models to inform evaluation strategies, design considerations, data sources and collection, limitations and sources of bias in evaluation, data analysis, interpretation and use of evaluative findings. Having such expertise sets the stage for success by enhancing course participants ability to make informed evaluative decisions in a variety of contexts.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5110: Community/School Sustain Food Systems

    A growing number of communities are participating in innovative educational efforts that engage a cross-section of the community in raising awareness and taking action to strengthen sustainable agriculture and local food systems. Decreased time spent in the out-of-doors and rising rates of obesity among youth and adults has led to outcries for social change. As examples: Keene, NH has included healthy eating as one of its strategies to become the healthiest community in America by 2020; the ‘Farm to School’ movement is reshaping school lunch programs across the U.S.; and various efforts are improving access to healthy food and reducing food insecurity across the globe. When people connect with the sources of their food, the effect on resiliency and health – personal, communal, environmental – can be significant. Course participants will explore food systems and related educational efforts in schools and broader community contexts. Topics include: planning, implementation, and evaluation of school/community gardens and related curricula; food justice; and methods for increasing access to, and consumption of, locally produced, nutritious food. In addition to class meetings on campus, some field sessions will be spent visiting school and/or community-based food initiative(s) and completing service learning projects.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5140: Program Planning & Design

    This course introduces program development techniques for youth and adult environmental education activities in non-formal contexts. Designing educational programs is an extremely creative process, filled with controversies and dilemmas. It is a political, philosophical, and theoretical process. In this class, we will analyze, critique, and redesign both the explicit and hidden curriculum of a variety of materials as we attempt to resolve our conflicting conceptions of program planning and develop our own philosophy of curriculum design. Consider this course as a way to help you move further along with your own questions and concerns about curriculum design and as an opportunity to twist, stretch, and flip your current understanding of what it means to design educational programs.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5170: Urban Environmental Education

    Cities are home to the vast majority of citizens around the world and hold great potential for sustainable living. Urban areas offer environmental educators the unique opportunity to reach large masses of people, utilize a vast array of rich human/cultural resources, and study interesting ecological dynamics. We are also witnessing a global crisis, as many youth and adults are living in urban poverty. At the same time, evidence suggests that connecting with the natural world positively affects emotional, physical, psychological and communal well-being. A healthy built environment and strong social networks also impact quality of life and intersect with issues of justice. This class explores the theory and practice of environmental education efforts in various urban contexts. We will investigate different aspects of urban living and sustainability, such as building design, energy, transportation, waste and food. Identifying and applying skills for effectively engaging learners across the lifespan in different urban learning contexts will be examined. Field trips, guest speakers, case studies and class projects explore the challenges, opportunities and skills necessary to be effective educators in urban settings.
    Min. Credits: 2.0 Max Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5200: Science Teaching Methods

    Science Teaching Methods is designed to help prepare students to effectively teach science at the middle or high school level. The course takes place at Compass School, an independent middle and high school in Westminster, VT (25 minutes from Antioch). Participants will have the opportunity to observe experienced teachers in action and to interact with middle and high school students, using these interactions as a forum for discovery, growth, and practice of teaching methods. We will practice classroom management strategies, communication techniques, curriculum design, lesson planning, assessment, and lab methods and safety. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their learning through discussion, written reflections, and optional videotaping of teaching experiences.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5210: ProbSolv/Inq Basd Sci Teach

    If I told you the answer, those of you still thinking about the problem would probably stop… In the spirit of Catherine Fosnot’s remark, we will explore teaching science in middle and high schools from a problem-solving and inquiry-based orientation. We will experience problem solving and inquiry from the perspectives of learners and teachers. Therefore, whether you are trying to figure out how to lift a classmate with one arm, the engineering of a pneumatic pump, or how to sustain multiple generations of life in a sealed container, we will reflect about the teaching of and learning through problem-solving and inquiry based approaches. Most, if not all, of our classes will meet at the Brattleboro Area Middle School and Brattleboro Union High School, two of our three lab schools, where you will have opportunities to observe, assist, and teach science lessons using problem solving approaches. Although this class will meet on Fridays, its exact time will be determined by the Brattleboro School system school schedule, in particular, the start of their school day.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5220: Teaching Exceptional Children

    Adolescent children and those with special needs present the classroom teacher with a wide variety of challenges in terms of management, motivation, and relationships. This course is designed to familiarize the student with special educational needs of adolescents who have a range of cognitive, physical or emotionally handicapping conditions. Related topics that will be covered include: Special Education (legal) requirements within school systems; developmental issues; the Individual Education Plan (IEP); curriculum adaptations; and issues in mainstreaming and normalization.
    Min. Credits: 2.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5230: EnvEd Meth-Teach Outdoors

    A large majority of environmental education takes place outside the school arena. A traditional setting for environmental education includes outdoor, adventure, and wilderness education. This course will provide opportunities to learn and practice techniques for teaching in a variety of outdoor contexts. It is designed primarily for those students with limited experience teaching in the outdoors. Location - Harris Center, Hancock, NH.
    Min. Credits: 2.0 Max Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5280: Exhibit Design and Interpretation

    Exhibit design combines a range of interpretation techniques to make the natural and cultural world relevant to the public. This course presents an overview of interpretive planning and exhibit development and design. Through readings, discussions, practical exercises and site visits, we will examine places of free-choice learning - like nature centers, zoos, aquariums, and museums - and analyze how exhibits are used to engage and educate visitors. These interpretive centers are pushing the boundaries of the traditional diorama or static display to tackle contemporary environmental concerns through interactive, experiential interpretation. Students will apply evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of these exhibits and become familiar with visitor research techniques. As they proceed through the design of their own exhibit, students will gain competency in all phases of the process, from conceptual plan to interpretive writing to installation. The result will be a greater understanding of interpretive exhibit development, which is relevant to all environmental professionals. This course has a field trip component; plan for admission fees to interpretive sites.
    Min. Credits: 2.0 Max Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5350: Conceptual & Human Development

    An understanding of human development is the foundation for effective teaching. Developmental processes, the intersection of biology and cultural context, are the blueprint upon which the educational objectives and curricula of schools should be built. We will explore the entire life span, focusing on cognitive development throughout, with primary emphasis on middle childhood and adolescence. The course will offer a survey of theories of human development, an overview of the potential conceptual abilities of children and adults, and a framework for creating effective curricula. Because students will participate in this course remotely, each student must have a quiet space, reliable power and internet connection, and an electronic device (tablet size or larger, not a cell phone) for class in order to fully participate each week. (Additional contact hours will be met by specific course work designed to be completed on-line).
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5360: Foundations Science/Environmental Educ

    The goals of this course are to explore a range of historical and contemporary methodologies of science and environmental education, to consider the relationships between the social contexts of science, environmental studies, and educating for sustainability and how they are taught in the classroom, and to examine science as an evolving knowledge system. With emphasis on philosophy and theory as well as practice, we will consider questions regarding the nature of science and environmental education and how we distinguish between them. You will reflect on your own personal experiences as a learner and a teacher as you study trends of the past 150 years and ponder how these trends will apply to your practice as an educator.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5370: Place-Based Environmental Education

    In this course we will study the relationships between placed-based environmental education, sense of place, and community. We will consider a variety of questions as we explore the value and challenges of place-based environmental education, using Keene and its neighborhoods as our place of study. For example: What do the phrases “place-based environmental education” and “sense of place” mean? What is the role of place in learning: Its histories, present-day realities, and futures? How can we, as environmental educators, work together with our students in developing sense of place? How do we develop sense of place in the face of globalization and homogenization of cultures? We will learn through individual self-reflection, collaboration with classmates, as well as experiencing a range of place-based learning experiences in the Keene community.
    Min. Credits: 2.0 Max Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5440: Curriculum Design

    Designing curriculum is an extremely creative process, filled with dilemmas, excitement, and anxiety. Crafting what people do for an extended period of time, deciding what they need to learn, how, and when is a political, philosophical, and theoretical experience. It’s demanding, time-consuming, and rewarding. You will have opportunities to craft an original 1-month curriculum for the context in which you plan to teach and for a practicing science teacher who has requested assistance in the development of a unit they are not satisfied with, and to help each other enhance the development of each other’s curriculum under development. In particular, we will experience first-hand and theoretically ideas like constructivism, experiential learning, authentic learning, problem-based (inquiry-based) curriculum. I think of curriculum designers as jazz composers. We create frameworks and directions in which our students are invited to follow and are encouraged to improvise to meet our learning goals. If we’re good composers, we will know how to greet our fellow musicians in order to enrich our music in unanticipated ways. I look forward to creating for you and with you opportunities to think critically and creatively about how to design powerful science curriculum.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5470: Environmental Education Methods: the Nature of Teaching and Learning

    Environmental Educators engage in the learning process across disciplines, with extremely varied learners, and in all sorts of environments. Considering the complex, emerging conditions, success is defined by both intentionality and improvisation. Throughout the year via experience, observations, narrative feedback, seminars, and guided conversations, we will explore the science and art of learning and teaching. While necessarily centered on the world of Residential Environmental Education, we will explore connections with traditional schooling, day-use programming, and informal zoo, nature center, aquarium, and park education. Ultimately we will explore and develop habits of practice and thought necessary for environmental educators in any place or time
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5480: EE Adv Topics: EnvEd & Built Environmt

    From homes, workplaces and schools to towns and cities, the design of our built environment impacts human health, community well-being, social equity, economies and environmental sustainability. This course will: (a) examine the historical and policy context of modern design and planning practice, (b) explore more sustainable design approaches, such as natural and green building, smart growth, low-impact development, native landscaping, urban agriculture, and healthy transportation, (c) consider educational strategies for various audiences involved in design and planning decisions (e.g., residents, planning board members, architects, contractors, youth), and (d) focus on participatory engagement methods for creative and inclusive community planning.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5490: EE Field Tech: Civic Ecol Pract & Comm Resilience

    How can we engage people in practices that increase the resilience of social-ecological systems? What contributes to resilience in the face of climate change, food insecurity, energy descent, and associated environmental, social, and economic challenges? This course explores such questions through the lens of civic ecology, which examines the interactions among people, environmental stewardship practices, education and learning, and resilience. Examples of civic ecology practices include ecological restoration, urban greening, community gardens, citizen science, and community forestry. Participants in this course will experience civic ecology practices first-hand and consider whether and how attributes of civic ecology practices like diversity, self-organization, adaptive learning, ecosystem services, and social capital might contribute to greater personal, communal, and ecological resilience. This course will also explore personal well-being and actions we can take to lead meaningful, sustainable lives amid vast environmental and social transitions happening in the world today. In addition to class meetings on campus, some field sessions will be spent visiting relevant sites and completing service learning projects.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESE-5490X: EE Field Tech: Civic Ecol Pract & Comm Resilience Continuation

    How can we engage people in practices that increase the resilience of social-ecological systems? What contributes to resilience in the face of climate change, food insecurity, energy descent, and associated environmental, social, and economic challenges? This course explores such questions through the lens of civic ecology, which examines the interactions among people, environmental stewardship practices, education and learning, and resilience. Examples of civic ecology practices include ecological restoration, urban greening, community gardens, citizen science, and community forestry. Participants in this course will experience civic ecology practices first-hand and consider whether and how attributes of civic ecology practices like diversity, self-organization, adaptive learning, ecosystem services, and social capital might contribute to greater personal, communal, and ecological resilience. This course will also explore personal well-being and actions we can take to lead meaningful, sustainable lives amid vast environmental and social transitions happening in the world today. In addition to class meetings on campus, some field sessions will be spent visiting relevant sites and completing service learning projects.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
  

  • ESF-5100: Cons/Ecol/Sust Sonoran Desert

    The ecology, conservation, cultural history, environmental justice, and political economy of the wider Sonoran Desert region of northwestern Mexico and southwestern Arizona, including the Sea of Cortez are the focus of this course. The trip traverses an ecological and cultural gradient from the low desert of central Sonora gaining latitude and elevation to the boundaries of both the desert and Hispanic and native American cultures in Arizona. The trip will begin in Kino, Sonora, MX, on the coast where we will focus on the juxtaposition of coastal and desert ecology, inland desert ecology, ecotourism and Native American culture, and human political economies. From Kino, we will pass through desert grasslands in north-central MX to evaluate plant community changes across elevational and climate gradients while traveling to the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve in northern MX. We will end the trip at Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona. In the course of the program students will be expected to complete a field research project, interact with various stakeholders, and understand, analyze, and engage with a complex ecological, cultural, and political context for biodiversity conservation and understand the implications of these factors for building sustainability Course fee includes airfare, food and lodging. This fee does not include personal expenses (e.g., souvenirs, beverages, snacks) or traveler insurance in the case of disruption due to a major weather event, health, or cancellations of another nature. Pre-trip and post-trip meetings are mandatory.
    Min. Credits: 3.0
    Credit Basis: Semester credit
    Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
    Method(s): Field Study,Classroom
    Faculty Consent Required: N
    Program Approval Required: N
    Course Type Environmental Studies and Sustainability
 

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