Antioch University

Addictions Counseling

The Post-Master's Certificate in Addictions Counseling provides specialized training for mental health providers who seek to meet the critical needs of the regional and national substance use crisis and enhance their requisite skills for work in addictions counseling. The program is open to those with a graduate degree in an allied mental health profession, and all courses are consistent with CACREP accreditation requirements.

Addiction Studies

The Antioch University Seattle Addictions Studies Certificate is an opportunity to learn about current approaches to treating Substance Use Disorders, effective trauma-informed interventions, and the social justice issues many clients with SUDs and mental health issues face. The certificate fulfills Washington State Department of Health education requirements for the Substance Use Disorder Alternative Learning option.

Adult Education

This hands-on program prepares participants to educate adults in a variety of settings, including the nonprofit sector, community-based organizations, higher education, and the corporate world, all with a focus on equity, social justice, and responsive pedagogy. The Adult Education program is offered as a concentration of the Master of Arts in Education or as a stand-alone certificate.

Allied Health

The Master of Science in Allied Health prepares transformative leaders in the healthcare sector, committed to advancing equity, ethical practice, and community well-being. Concentrations are offered in Healthcare Administration and in Exercise and Health Science, combining rigorous training in health management, policy, and research with an emphasis on social determinants of health and health equity.

Applied Arts and Media

The BA in Applied Arts and Media (BAAM) is designed for undergraduate transfer students who have a minimum of 27 college credits in a specialized or technical area of the arts, accepting transferable credits in theater, film, video, photography, design, culinary arts, cosmetology, fashion, music production, and other applied creative fields.

Applied Spatial Analysis in GIS

A certificate in Applied Spatial Analysis for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides students with essential skills to apply GIS in a variety of professional fields, including conservation and environmental sciences, urban and regional planning, resource management, sustainability, public health, government and military, and K-12 education. This 9-credit one-year online program focuses on practical applications of GIS.

Applied Studies

The Applied Studies major gives students who have earned an associate's degree or technical training in a discrete area the forum to build upon those skills by developing a broader contextual understanding of their profession while advancing their liberal learning perspective. Students integrate their career or technical preparation into studies that expand their skills in written and oral communication, consideration of social and ethical issues, and problem solving.

Applied Technology and Business Leadership

The Bachelor of Science in Applied Technology and Business Leadership gives students who have earned an associate's degree in a technical area an opportunity to develop business skills that will help them advance in their professional field.

Athletic Training

The Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) combines a liberal education base with professional academic and clinical experiences necessary to qualify a student to sit for the Board of Certification examination. Year one courses are hybrid, offered online and on the Otterbein University campus in Westerville, Ohio; year two offers online learning options.

Business Administration

The online MBA program at Antioch University is designed for employed professionals seeking to further their business skills and advance their careers. Antioch's MBA emphasizes the mutual importance of people, planet, and profit in building and leading successful organizations - often referred to as a 'triple bottom line' approach. The degree consists of eight core courses and three concentration courses.

Climate Change Education

Students enrolled in this certificate gain skills, knowledge and experiences to meaningfully engage others on the biophysical, social and emotional challenges presented by climate change in ways that meet students and diverse audiences where they are. Coursework draws on empirical scientific data as well as the social-psychological factors that drive climate engagement.

Climate Resilience

The Climate Resilience Certificate prepares professionals to incorporate resilience strategies into planning, implementation, and evaluation within any domain of resource management, community engagement, and environmental protection.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

This Post-Master's Certificate in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is open to those who already hold a master's degree in Counseling yet do not meet the current educational requirements for licensure as a clinical mental health counselor or licensed professional counselor in their state. The certificate allows counselors with specializations in other areas to gain the additional specialized academic courses currently required for professional counseling licensure.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

This CACREP-accredited counselor education program, with a specialty area in clinical mental health counseling, trains students in eight core areas including professional counseling orientation and ethical practice, social and cultural diversity, human growth and development, career development, counseling and helping relationships, group counseling, assessment and testing, and research and program evaluation.

Clinical Psychology

The MA Program in Clinical Psychology prepares students for MFT licensure in California and, with some additional coursework, for licensure as Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors.

Clinical Psychology

The Psy.D. Program in Clinical Psychology is a five-year, full-time program that includes four years of coursework plus the completion of a year-long internship. The curriculum prepares students for licensure in psychology and follows the NCSPP practitioner/scholar educational model, emphasizing ethical practice, social responsibility, and cultural pluralism.

Conservation Psychology

This certificate introduces students and practitioners to conservation psychology approaches and tools, builds an understanding of how social, cognitive, emotional, contextual and behavioral processes influence how people understand and respond to environmental threats, and offers opportunities to integrate conservation psychology learning through applied skills in communication, behavior change, nature connection, cultural competence or program evaluation.

Counseling Military Personnel & Families

This certificate allows students with an interest in serving this unique population an opportunity to become knowledgeable and well-versed in matters pertaining to Armed Forces and the impacts of military service on the servicemember, veteran, family members, and community. It addresses a significant gap in education and training related to military populations.

Counselor Education and Supervision

The PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision is designed for counselors who wish to enhance their professional competencies in research and evaluation, supervision, teaching, leadership/advocacy, and counseling. Offered in a low-residency format, graduates most often go on to positions in higher education as faculty and/or researchers, or as clinical supervisors and program administrators in community or governmental organizations.

Couple and Family Therapy

The Post-Master's Certificate Respecialization in Couple and Family Therapy takes into consideration the student's prior academic and work experience, state requirements and licensure needs. It is designed for the working professional who has already earned a clinical graduate degree in a mental health field but seeks specialized training in Couple and Family Therapy, combining online instruction with optional residency work.

Couple & Family Therapy

The Doctor of Philosophy in Couple and Family Therapy is designed to be completed in a minimum of three years of full-time enrollment and is offered through a low-residency format with six in-person residencies. Students engage in clinical practice their first year and advanced practical experience in their second year, and complete a doctoral dissertation and qualifying examinations.

Creative Writing

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing represents the study of literature from the perspective of the writer, combining a humanities-based curriculum with creative manuscript work and criticism. This low-residency program offers creative nonfiction, fiction, literary translation, playwriting, poetry, writing for the screen, and young people as primary genres, with single genre, mixed genre, and dual concentration completion options.

Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Education

This certificate program assists experienced early childhood educators in earning academic credit for experiential learning from professional work in the field, and is designed to help students build a bridge toward completing a four-year degree. The nine-month program involves current learning credits in writing, reflective practice, and content courses, plus prior learning credits awarded through portfolio.

Dance/Movement Therapy

The low-residency Dance/Movement Therapy certificate fulfills the majority of requirements to apply through the Alternate Route pathway for the R-DMT (registered dance/movement therapist) credential awarded by the American Dance Therapy Association. The program begins with a summer entry point and is completed over a minimum of three years, including five residencies and five credits online.

Dance/Movement Therapy

The Master's program in Dance/Movement Therapy at Antioch University New England was one of the first to be approved by the American Dance Therapy Association, and students can become registered Dance/Movement Therapists (R-DMT) upon completion of the degree requirements. The low-residency concentration in Couple and Family Therapy also meets education requirements in many states for licensure as a Couple and Family Therapist.

Dyslexia Studies

The Certificate in Dyslexia Studies is built upon the latest research and best practices for working with students with dyslexia, and has met the International Dyslexia Association's Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teacher of Reading. Coursework is offered in an online format to meet the needs of K-12 classroom educators and other interested individuals.

Educating for Sustainability

The Certificate in Educating for Sustainability focuses on the interdependence of environment, economy and equity (the three E's of Educating for Sustainability) and how sustainability can be incorporated at any grade level and in every subject area. This is a four-semester program that can be completed entirely online.

Education

A Master's Degree in Education is a path toward new careers and/or professional advancement for many students, offering a deep and careful study of the field of education and on-the-ground connections between coursework and fieldwork, between theory and practice. The MAEd Program at AU Seattle focuses on curriculum, instruction, and social change and is flexible enough to meet the needs of a variety of educators.

Educational and Professional Practice

The Ed.D. program is designed to prepare change-oriented professionals who use educational practice in the service of more just and inclusive schools, organizations, and communities. Students specialize in one of the following transdisciplinary areas of inquiry: Critical Pedagogy; Environmental and Sustainability Education; Humane Education; Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education; Social Justice Leadership; Social Emotional Learning; Waldorf Education; or Self-Designed.

Elementary Education, Waldorf Concentration with Elementary Focus

The MEd in Elementary Education: Waldorf Concentration with Elementary Focus starts in the summer and is designed to be completed in approximately 8 consecutive semesters (Year-Round program); summer-sequence regular and flexible delivery options are also offered. The Master's Project is started in the semester following completion of all other program requirements, with an average time to completion of 3 semesters.

Environmental and Sustainability Education

This graduate credit certificate is a partnership between Antioch University New England and Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. Coursework involves 12 credits in community ecology, environmental education, and field techniques, along with an internship to apply these skills in a professional setting; all courses are delivered at the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in northern Minnesota.

Environmental Studies

The MS in Environmental Studies requires a minimum of three semesters and 36 credits and may be completed fully virtually, partially virtually, or fully face-to-face with on-campus and field studies courses. All students take three core courses, identify a concentration area, complete a professional internship, and complete a capstone requirement such as a master's project, thesis, collaborative service initiative, or second internship.

Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies doctorate integrates a wide range of concepts and ideas and embraces multiple methodological approaches to understanding and solving critical and emerging environmental challenges. Doctoral students complete four phases of the program with their cohorts, with each phase spanning approximately one year; the 66-credit program is typically completed in 5-6 years.

Environmental Studies, Sustainability and Sciences

The B.S. in Environmental Studies, Sustainability, and Sciences (ES3) degree prepares the next generation of environmental professionals. Students with some undergraduate units transfer to Antioch University to complete their BS degree with engaging online courses and optional field study courses. The program emphasizes practitioner preparation and service to new majority, first-generation, and BIPOC student populations.

Food Justice and Resilient Communities

Through this certificate, students gain skills, experiences and understandings of how food justice and community-based education can enhance personal and communal well-being, particularly among people and places most impacted by climate change and other social, economic, and ecological injustices. The certificate can be completed within 32 weeks.

Foundations of Education

The M.Ed. in Foundations of Education is offered with fully online and low-residency options and can typically be completed in 5-7 semesters.

Gender Affirming Clinical Practice

The Certificate in Gender Affirming Clinical Practice is offered through the Couple and Family Therapy program and is designed for students who have completed a clinical master's degree or are currently enrolled in a master's or doctoral program in a clinical mental health related field. The program focuses on developing culturally sensitive therapists and counselors trained to work with members of the transgender and gender non-conforming population.

Health Counseling and Psychology

The BA in Health Counseling and Psychology (HCP) is a professional preparation degree embedded within a liberal arts undergraduate framework. Students undertake foundational coursework in psychology, health sciences, mind-body integration, and counseling as well as basic research skills and clinical fieldwork toward understanding and promotion of physical health and wellbeing.

Human Development

The Human Development major is specifically designed to address the changing social structures of contemporary society, including public policy regarding the social concerns and issues experienced by infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders. The curriculum is for those whose professional concerns will contribute to the development of life skills in the individual.

Humane Education

The Graduate Certificate in Humane Education focuses on the intersectional issues of environmental ethics, animal protection, and human rights, and how bringing a "solutionary" lens to our educational efforts can empower changemaking in classrooms and communities. This 3-5 semester program can be completed fully online.

Humane Education (MA)

The MA in Humane Education focuses on the intersectional issues of environmental ethics, animal protection, and human rights, and how bringing a "solutionary" lens to educational efforts can empower changemaking in classrooms and communities. This 5-7 semester program can be completed fully online with an optional one-week summer residency at the Institute for Humane Education, and is designed for non-classroom educators and advocates.

Humane Education (M.Ed.)

The M.Ed. in Humane Education focuses on the intersectional issues of environmental ethics, animal protection, and human rights, and how bringing a "solutionary" lens to educational efforts can empower changemaking in classrooms and communities. This 5-7 semester program can be completed fully online with an optional one-week summer residency at the Institute for Humane Education in Surry, Maine, and is designed for classroom educators at all levels.

Humanities

The Individualized Master of Arts (IMA) Program offers an MA in Humanities through an individualized, online program in which students design their degree plans and courses while continuing to live and work in their home communities. Students pursue their studies through 3 foundation courses, co-designed individualized courses with faculty, and seminars, culminating in a capstone or thesis.

Human Services Administration

Founded on the principles of helping others, the Master of Human Services Administration prepares service-minded practitioners looking to put their talents to use by improving the lives of others. Students examine topics of organizational leadership, management practices, board governance, program planning, and grant writing to improve and expand quality of services in a variety of social service organizations.

Integrated STEAM Education

The Certificate in Integrated STEAM Education trains educators in the core practices of inquiry-driven, experiential pedagogy, and authentic assessment as tools for facilitating instruction and designing curriculum. The experiential, practical approach helps participants remain committed to their current job and personal responsibilities.

Leadership and Change

The PhD in Leadership and Change is a low-residency, cohort-based program designed for working professionals who will understand and lead organizational change in their professions as reflective practitioners and engaged scholars. The multiyear doctoral journey is sequenced through the lenses of leadership and change, research and inquiry, culminating in an original dissertation.

Leadership in Edible Education

The Leadership in Edible Education (LEE) program draws from holistic, ecologically interconnected fields and is designed for educators and food community professionals interested in adding value to their practice through edible education. This program is offered as a concentration of the Master of Arts in Education or as a stand-alone professional certificate granted jointly by Antioch University Seattle and EduCulture.

Liberal Studies

The BA in Liberal Studies degree completion program is built on principles of rigorous liberal arts education, lifelong learning, and social responsibility, placing the student at the center of their learning process. Students design their own plans of study, with faculty guidance, to round out liberal arts learning outcomes and focus on an area of personal and career interest. Although all students graduate with the same degree, students choose an area of concentration to focus their studies.

Management

The Bachelor of Arts in Management prepares graduates for careers in a global community by developing their capacities to adapt to and influence societal change. While students become knowledgeable about social, political and economic issues that affect the future of business, they also become competent in the traditional areas of management including accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and production.

Mindfulness for Educators

This is a year-long, fully online graduate certificate program designed for educators interested in deepening their own practice and exploring and applying mindfulness-based approaches in their teaching or work context. The program trains educators in the core practices of mindfulness and compassion as formal practices and as lived and embodied responses to life in the classroom and in the world.

Multicultural Counseling

The Multicultural Counseling Certificate is designed to provide advanced knowledge and skills related to the multicultural competencies applied in clinical and community settings. It equips students with an advanced understanding of multicultural dynamics and strategies when promoting clinical change and social advocacy within diverse communities.

Nature-Based Early Childhood Education

The Certificate in Nature-Based Early Childhood Education trains teachers, administrators, and founders of nature preschools and forest kindergartens. This is a four-semester program with selected face-to-face weekend classes in Keene, NH, and required intensive face-to-face classes in Keene in July.

Nonprofit Management

The mission of the Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program is to prepare individuals for exemplary professional leadership in nonprofit organizations through a curriculum informed by best practice standards in the discipline. The program consists of a core curriculum of eight courses focused on the major functions involved in nonprofit leadership, plus three elective courses.

Perinatal Mental Health

The perinatal mental health certificate prepares providers to work with pregnant people and new parents by empowering students with the skills to assess, diagnose, and treat a wide range of perinatal mental health conditions. Students also study ethics, social justice, culture, and advocacy within the realm of reproductive health care.

Place-Based Education

The Certificate in Place-Based Education focuses on the process of using the local community and environment as starting points to integrate language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, art, music, and technology. It is built on David Sobel's pioneering program development and writing that sparked a nationwide and international movement to design and implement place-based learning.

Play Therapy

The AU Play Therapy Certificate meets the minimum requirements as issued by the Association of Play Therapy and applies towards credentialing as a Registered Play Therapist. Certification is offered through a hybrid learning model incorporating online learning with traditional seminar coursework.

Problem Based Learning / Critical Skills

The Certificate in Problem Based Learning / Critical Skills uses the Critical Skills Classroom, a mindset in which the teacher and the student are co-learners, engaged in the same learning process but focused on different learning goals. Students learn about the CSC and, through it, learn with program faculty who are current K-12 teachers and leaders with significant experience implementing Critical Skills in their own classrooms.

Professional Studies

The Certificate in Professional Studies is a 13-credit self-designed certificate program for students who prefer a more flexible commitment than the 36-credit Liberal Arts MA program. It caters to students with backgrounds in allied health professions, providing targeted coursework aimed at enhancing professional competencies and advancing career prospects in allied health fields.

Psychology

The Master in Psychology degree provides foundational practical and theoretical knowledge for a sustainable and successful career in the field of psychology. Students completing this course of study do not meet criteria for licensure but are qualified for consideration in a variety of fields of psychology or for entry into doctoral programs. An individualized concentration allows students to design a program reflecting their personal interests and career paths.

Psychology

The BA in Psychology is designed to provide students with a foundation in psychological theory and research. Students develop competencies in writing and interpersonal communication as well as psychology-specific skills for effective self-reflection, project management, and teamwork. Students must complete a minimum of 54 quarter units in psychology for the major.

Resource Management and Administration

This master's program gives students the flexibility to earn a degree while continuing to work full-time. RMA students learn how to build stakeholder capacity, practice effective communication strategies, and provide leadership and management to organizations and communities facing difficult resource management decisions, especially within the context of a changing climate.

School Counseling

This CACREP-aligned school counselor education program trains students in core and specialty counseling courses, preparing them to provide culturally responsive services addressing the academic, social/emotional, and career development needs of K-12 students through a social justice and advocacy lens. The program is offered online with two week-long in-person residencies and concludes with clinical field experience totaling 700 hours.

School Counseling

The Certificate in School Counseling provides training in this specialty area for post-master's level counselors or supplemental training for current graduate students enrolled in Antioch University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Psychology and Therapy programs. The program is designed to be completed over 5 semesters and concludes with clinical field experience totaling 600 hours.

Sexuality Education

The Certificate in Sex Education is designed for students, alumni, and community members who hold a Bachelor's Degree-or-higher in Education or Equivalent field to broaden their educator skills specific to delivering content around and promoting sexual health. It has been developed to meet the minimum education credit requirements for certification as a sexuality educator through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).

Socially Responsible Organizational Leadership

Organizational sustainability, leadership and management skills are essential in nearly any environmental context. Students enrolled in this certificate gain leadership, organizational management, facilitation and community engagement skills to succeed in a variety of nonprofit, governmental, academic and for-profit organizational contexts.

Social Sciences

The Individualized Master of Arts (IMA) Program offers an MA in Social Sciences through an individualized, online program in which students design their degree plans and courses while continuing to live and work in their home communities. Students pursue their studies through 3 foundation courses, co-designed individualized courses with faculty, and seminars, culminating in a capstone or thesis.

Teaching

The Masters in Teaching (MAT) program prepares teacher candidates to become reflective, community-oriented teachers. Upon successful completion, candidates are awarded a Master of Arts in Teaching and recommended for a Washington State Residency Teaching Certificate with an Elementary Education Endorsement. MAT emphasizes justice-oriented pedagogy, student-centered learning, and innovative program design.

Teaching

The Teacher Education Program (TEP) prepares teacher candidates to become reflective, community-oriented teachers. Upon successful completion, candidates are recommended for a Washington State Residency Teaching Certificate with an Elementary Education Endorsement, and may complete additional coursework for an English Language Learner Endorsement. A one-year and an extended (two-year) timeline option are available.

Teaching and Learning

The Certificate in Teaching and Learning is designed for teachers who are pursuing or have completed alternative licensure and/or who wish to deepen their skills as practitioners after having completed the licensure process. Specific coursework is determined based upon student needs as defined by the site-based or alternative licensure process, student reflection, and advisor or school mentor guidance.

Teaching of Creative Writing

The Post-MFA Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing is open to any student holding an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles or another accredited institution, and is one semester beyond completion of the MFA degree. During the semester, the student engages in systematic study of the theory and practice of teaching creative writing and composition.

Transdisciplinary Studies

The Certificate in Transdisciplinary Studies is a 13-credit self-designed certificate program for students who prefer a more flexible commitment than the 36-credit Liberal Arts MA program. Students pursue their studies through one foundation course, a choice of self-designed courses with faculty, seminars, or Intra-University courses, and one certificate project.

Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education

This advanced level Waldorf MEd program with a transdisciplinary focus on healing education is offered by the Waldorf Program of Antioch University New England in collaboration with the Camphill School of Curative Education and Social Therapy. The program enrolls a cohort every other spring and is designed to be completed in 2 spring and 2 summer semesters.

Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education

This advanced level Waldorf Certificate program with a transdisciplinary focus on healing education is offered by the Waldorf Program of Antioch University New England in collaboration with the Camphill School of Curative Education and Social Therapy. It is open to applicants with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience with a practice based on anthroposophical foundations.

Transformative Education

The Transformative Education certificate situates students not as passive inheritors of the world but as attentive and inquiring agents of change. Every required course and field experience is rooted in disruptive and liberatory pedagogies, social and environmental justice, and democratic orientations. This is a three-semester online program.

Trauma Counseling

The Post-Master's Certificate in Trauma Counseling provides specialized training for mental health providers who want to specialize in working with trauma survivors and those actively experiencing trauma. The certificate program is open to those with a graduate degree in an allied mental health profession, and all courses are consistent with CACREP accreditation requirements.

Trauma Counseling

The Trauma Counseling Certificate provides well-structured training for current graduate students in counseling-related programs and mental health professionals in the field who want to build competency in working with trauma survivors.

Trauma Informed Education

The Certificate in Trauma Informed Education examines trauma in the context of the learning environment, providing a broad understanding of issues related to trauma informed education. It is intended for classroom teachers, school administrators, school counselors, school psychologists, and other associated school personnel who will come in contact with children affected by trauma, and is offered completely online.

Urban Communities and Justice

The Bachelor of Applied Arts in Urban Communities and Justice serves students who are committed to working on community and justice issues. The goal of the major is to prepare students to work as community professionals, advocates, and change-makers who understand their communities and the forces that disadvantage certain groups and individuals within them.

Waldorf Education, Elementary Focus

The Certificate in Waldorf Elementary Education is available to experienced teachers who want training in the Waldorf approach to education without acquiring the MEd degree. It is offered in Year-Round, Summer Sequence Regular, and Summer Sequence Flexible formats, and includes a teaching internship or practicum in an independent or public Waldorf school.

Women and Leadership

The Women in Leadership Certificate Program is a virtual program coordinated by Antioch University Online. It targets women in mid-level management/leadership roles seeking an opportunity to self-assess and be provided feedback on their leadership abilities, deepen their skills and self-confidence, build strong networks of support, and plan a career path for the future in the context of social change.