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Antioch's M.A. in Environment and Community is designed for full- and part-time students. All courses are offered in a four-day weekend module once a month. You begin the program in October or April.
Program Introduction: The Gathering
Prior to the first weekend of the program, you attend an off-site orientation and build community among your peers in the Center for Creative Change.
Core Courses
You take these required core courses:
- Communication Design
- Critical Inquiry
- Global Pluralism
- Systemic Thinking for a Changing World
- Sustainability
- Transformative Leadership and Change
- Methods for Sustainable Change
- Environment and Community Caucus
Specialization Courses for M.A. in Environment and Community
You take these specialization courses:
- Theories and Practices of Socio-environmental Change
- Economics and the Environment
- Environmental Policy and Decision-making Processes
- Integrative Environmental Science
- Four courses of electives
- Applications of Sustainable Change
Specialization Courses for M.A. with Concentration
in Sustainable Food Systems and Permaculture Design
You take these specialization courses:
- Food Systems and Their Alternatives
- Theories and Practices of Socio-environmental Change
- Permaculture and Sustainable Systems Design
- Political Ecology of Eating and Consumption
- Four courses of electives
- Applications of Sustainable Change
Sample Elective Courses
Sample elective courses include:
- Appropriate Technologies and Social Adaptations
- International Applications in Sustainable Change
- History and Culture of the Pacific Northwest Environment
- Ethics and Environmental Justice
- Philosophical Perspectives on Environment and Community
- Globalization and Its Discontents: The Political Economy of the 21st Century
- Specialization and elective courses from other Center degree programs
- Independent Studies
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