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Antioch University has partnered with the Los Angeles Urban League to offer programs that uniquely prepare young professionals through quality bachelors and graduate programs to work toward social, environmental, and economic justice for all. 

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Programs Offered

Overview

Antioch programs place an emphasis on your practical knowledge and your professional development. You get a strong foundation on which to gain expertise and to build your resume. Whether your interest is business, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurship or technology, you’ll be able to apply your Antioch studies as soon as you enroll. Your education will be experiential as well as classroom-based. Your faculty will be experienced practitioners as well as expert educators.

Los Angeles Campus - Degrees in Leadership, Management & Business

The Bachelor of Science in Applied Technology and Business Leadership gives students with technical skills an opportunity to develop business skills that will help them advance in their professional field. In this program, you’ll focus on leadership perspectives, planning, and business tools and how to use them in an ethical and socially conscious context. You’ll also gain the interpersonal skills needed to advance yourself effectively within your field.

 

Online - Degrees in Leadership, Management & Business

You’ve proven yourself as a worthy employee within your organization, and now you want to channel your ambitions towards upper-level management. Our bachelor of management degree will help you learn how to effectively lead and engage a workforce through strategic and systematic management decisions. You’ll then be capable of leveraging new knowledge and enhanced leadership skills to take a human-centric approach to management, increasing productivity and building a more positive workplace.

Antioch University Online’s bachelor’s in applied technology and business leadership degree blends academic course work with your professional experiences with the goal of enhancing your career. You’ll develop a broadened outlook to support your ongoing development as a well-rounded professional.

Antioch’s MBA is designed as a series of 7-week online courses taken one course at a time. It’s a demanding program – but work-life balance is important, and graduate school needs to fit into your life.

  • 36-credits. Earn your MBA in two years or less
  • 100% online learning, 24/7 access to classwork and resource for convenience
  • Three entry points – begin your MBA in January, May, or September
  • No GMAT required. We value you and your experiences

Hands On – Online

  • Online does not mean isolated! Faculty are active practitioners in their field. They are engaged and present throughout the class. Video, audio, guest speakers, and other tools keep things vibrant and moving forward
  • Your classmates are just as intelligent, engaged, and purpose-driven as you are
  • You’ll love networking and learning from each other
  • We’re an active member of Net Impact. With over 300 chapters in nearly 40 countries, Net Impact programs help new leaders broaden their thinking, build their networks, and scale their impact beyond just individual action, you’ll have an opportunity to participate in special projects and innovative initiatives.

Are you looking for a way to make a greater difference in the world? Do you desire to work more effectively toward equity and justice—from human services and environmental issues to the arts, culture, education, and more? Join a community of people who want to bring positive change—while also building a career and earning a livable income.

Antioch University is a nonprofit institution that has prioritized making a difference for nearly 170 years. When you enroll in our Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management (MANM) program, you join a thriving and committed community—led by a team of faculty with decades of leadership experience who are dedicated to the highest level of academic rigor. Our MANM will support you in building the practical skills, professional network, and knowledge you need to increase your impact, advance your career, and excel at your mission.

Antioch’s MANM is designed for working professionals who are ready for the next step in their career. We have a diverse group of students, from those just starting out in the nonprofit world to people who already have leadership positions in agencies and institutions.

Antioch’s Master’s degree in Human Services Administration (MHSA) prepares service-minded practitioners who seek the skills and knowledge to lead in organizations where they can help have a positive impact on the lives of others. Whether you want to advance your current career or pursue a role as an executive director, grant writer, or program manager, our master’s degree program could help you meet your educational goals.

Overview

Our Creative Writing & Communication Studies degrees combine creative exploration, technical execution, and cultural context to better understand language and its effect on the world around us. Harness your creative passion and build the necessary skills to articulate your artistic vision by working constructively with diverse perspectives.

Degrees in Creative Writing & Communication Studies

Our low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program is devoted not only to the education of literary artists but to community engagement and the pursuit of social justice. The program features one-on-one mentoring with a variety of successful, publishing writers and includes instruction in craft, revision, and critical reading and thinking skills. The rights and ethical responsibilities of creative writers are also addressed, along with practical career concerns related to the business of writing and publishing. The MFA program prepares adult learners for careers and meaningful lives as writers, editors, teachers, and engaged literary citizens.

Our creative writing program focuses not just on the mastery of creative writing, but on critical reading and thinking skills that foster a more exemplary understanding of language. Pairing this skill-based education with social justice and community engagement training produces a well-rounded degree that prepares adult learners for a meaningful, rewarding, and creative career. Expand your skills in written and verbal communications, broaden your understanding of social and ethical issues, and solve the problems that leaders in your profession encounter every day.

Have an MFA but no teaching experience? In a single semester, our low-residency Post-MFA Certificate program takes aspiring teachers from theory to practice, focusing on methods of teaching writing and allowing the student to gain practical classroom experience through either a face-to-face or an online supervised teaching placement. Experienced writing instructors may pursue the certificate for professional development purposes, as well as to improve their personal classroom pedagogy.

Overview

For over 160 years Antioch University has been a leader in progressive education, making a difference in the lives of children, adults and families by transforming the traditional classroom. Through experiential learning, small class sizes, and collaborative learning environments, we’ve created a set of credentials that help you become the teacher you’ve always wanted to be.

Degrees in Education

Our teacher credentialing programs are robust and enlightening, preparing you for the challenges you’ll face throughout your teaching career. Our hands-on, experiential learning opportunities will help you grow as both an educator and leader in the classroom.

The educational specialist teacher credential prepares candidates to teach students with disabilities that include specific learning disabilities, mild to moderate intellectual disability, attention deficit and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, and serious emotional disturbance, for grades K-12, as well as in Adult Education.

Our combined master’s and credential program will prepare you to meet the day-to-day challenges inside America’s urban, underserved, under-performing or specialized classrooms. Clearing these hurdles requires fostering an educational atmosphere of mutual respect, individualized attention, and social awareness. Your classroom will be as diverse as the cities in which your students live, so we prepare educators to teach students with diverse backgrounds and needs, becoming conduits for student success within their school.

The Master of Arts in Education, Leadership and Change program prepares progressive leaders for action at all levels in schools, as well as other nonprofit and for-profit educational organizations and community-based work, to understand and then respond justly to the cultural issues that demand change in our professional and civic lives. Candidates gain authority on: Systems thinking and analysis, change-based organizing, leadership as mission-relevant advocacy, participatory action research, how to draft fundable grant projects, and the ways in which critical literacy can advance personal success and social sustainability.

Overview

Pioneers for a more sustainable and just world are leading the cultural, political, and environmental shift towards a brighter future. Combine your existing passion with a degree from Antioch University to build upon your current knowledge and learn how to apply it to the complex societal problems communities are facing.

Degrees in Environmental Studies & Sustainability

The communities in which we live are important to all of us. Fostering a more just community and strengthening interpersonal ties is essential so all citizens have access to a more meaningful, healthy and prosperous life. Explore how oppression, privilege, discrimination, and social and economic disadvantage impact our justice system. Gain critical thinking and ethical decision making awareness. Develop leadership skills to strategically and effectively work on social issues within a professional context.

This innovative program recognizes the unique needs and realities of our local and regional human and ecological communities. Students receive the necessary training to become effective change-makers who can envision a socially, economically, racially, and ecologically just future.

Overview

Antioch University’s Individualized Master of Arts programs offered by the School of Education offer a high degree of flexibility in building a program of study that meets your personal and professional needs. Design a degree program by combining existing courses from graduate areas of the university.

Education on your terms!

  • Transfer up to 15 semester credits, which may include up to 9 credits for your professional experience
  • Starts in January, March, May, July, August, and October
  • Complete your degree in two years or less
  • Work closely with a faculty mentor of your choice with expertise in your specialization
  • Save time and money with an Antioch University pathway program

Individualized Master of Arts Programs

Start with two Foundations courses to learn broadly about the self-design process and how to conduct research in your field of study.

In a third foundation course, create an individualized degree plan that helps you achieve your personal and professional aspirations. During this time, you will select your mentor, who will review your degree plan and develop action steps for achieving your goals.

Attend free colloquia three times a year. Recent topics include healing practice, environmental justice, spirituality, women in leadership, music and soul, and mental health. Colloquia are curated spaces where the community of students, faculty, the general public, and guest speakers learn together. 

Choose from a variety of specializations in the Humanities – Creative Writing, Intercultural Studies, or Interdisciplinary – or create your own specialization!

Start with two Foundations courses to learn broadly about the self-design process and how to conduct research in your field of study.

In a third foundation course, create an individualized degree plan that helps you achieve your personal and professional aspirations. During this time, you will select your mentor, who will review your degree plan and develop action steps for achieving your goals.

Attend free colloquia three times a year. Recent topics include healing practice, environmental justice, spirituality, women in leadership, music and soul, and mental health. Colloquia are curated spaces where the community of students, faculty, the general public, and guest speakers learn together. 

Choose from a variety of specializations in Social Sciences – Education Studies and Human Development, Conflict Resolution, or Management of Human and Natural Systems – or create your own specialization!

Overview

The adult learners in Antioch University’s Psychology programs are more than just career seekers, they’re passionate learners committed to improving the lives of individuals, couples, and families. Our students, faculty, and alumni strive to empower people of all backgrounds, cultures, economic standing, sexual orientations and identities to achieve their full potential. Surround yourself with compassionate, professional, motivated students and professors committed to addressing the needs of today’s increasingly diverse populations.

Degrees in Psychology

Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Clinical Counselors are engaged people, involved in real relationships that require commitment and genuine emotions in the midst of professional work. Our clinical psychology degree program emphasizes authentic relationships. At Antioch University, you’ll join a community of students and faculty who are active, engaged, and socially conscious. You’ll be part of a small cohort of classmates in an environment that fosters collaboration.

The Addiction and Recovery Specialization explores substance use and related disorders from a multidimensional perspective. Rather than looking at “addicts” or people struggling with addiction from an oversimplified, one-size-fits-all approach, students gain insight into the biological, psychological, socio-cultural-political, and systemic etiology of addiction along with a variety of approaches to treatment. Training includes the ability to thoroughly assess, conceptualize, diagnose, and develop comprehensive treatment plans along with the skills required to deliver evidence-based, client-centered interventions with compassion and deep understanding for the complexity of addiction and recovery.

 

Children are inherently malleable, conforming to their surroundings and shaping perceptions without the deep consideration adults are capable of. Our approach to understanding and healing children and teens is to focus on the whole child and children’s multiple ecologies: family, peers, school, spirituality, neighborhood, and community. The Child Studies Specialization prepares you for the California MFT, while also gaining additional specialized insight into the state-of-the-art assessment, diagnosis, and effective interventions with young children, school-age children, and adolescents.

 

Follow your clinical interests with our less structured yet highly flexible General Practices Specialization. Deepen your knowledge and skill set by strategically assembling coursework that is reflective of your areas of interest. By designing your own syllabus, you will develop a specialization suitable for your career and life goals, while simultaneously receiving the hands-on, experiential learning opportunities that are unique to AULA. Create your own specialization and achieve the professional success you desire.

 

Antioch has been a pioneer in social justice for over 160 years, consistently pushing the boundaries of equality for the greater good of all marginalized groups. In the LGBT-Affirmative Psychology Specialization, you’ll develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and self-awareness to implement the most effective and empowering mental health services for LGBT individuals. Challenge how you understand identity and become part of a community of advocates challenging broader categories of identity and helping advance greater equality and understanding.

 

While always having been a core aspect of psychology practice, there is now recognition that exposure to chronic traumatic events can have a devastating effect on psychological, emotional and social well being. Traumatic events can vary in duration, intensity, and impact, but the detrimental effects on the psychological health of those affected are significant and often times debilitating. Whether it’s a result of crime, natural catastrophe or conflict related trauma, you will learn how to provide competent, sensitive and skilled therapy to those suffering.

 

All adults have encountered many hurdles throughout their lives while maturing with age and gaining expertise. Human development does continue through midlife, however, as new challenges present themselves and life’s burdens continue to weigh. Our Professional Clinical Counselor track will empower you to use career counseling theory and career-focused assessment techniques to approach normative development across the lifespan with strategy and tact.

 

The Spiritual and Depth Psychology Specialization explores the intersections between mindfulness-based therapy, Jungian-based analytic psychology, and socio-cultural diversity consciousness. Students are supported in developing integrative psychotherapy techniques rooted in both traditional and evidence based practices of the East and West honoring body-mind-spirit wellness.

 

The psychology concentration has provided AULA’s diverse adult-learner population with a comprehensive and cutting-edge education in psychological theory and practice while emphasizing the core issues of social justice and intercultural studies.

 

Overview

We understand that you can’t put your life on hold while you complete your bachelor’s degree. That’s why we offer flexible options for shaping your coursework, including on-campus and online degree programs. 

At AU Los Angeles, you’ll be exposed to a variety of concentration options within our Undergraduate Studies programs that can help aid you in your personal and professional development. You’ll work with a faculty mentor to help you navigate the program.  

AU Online Undergraduate Studies programs provide the clarity you need, regardless of your experience level, to enhance your knowledge and earn a degree to move ahead in your field. Designed to fit your schedule, Antioch’s online programs can be taken anywhere!  

Los Angeles Campus - Undergraduate Degrees

If it’s change you’re seeking, on both a professional and personal level, you’ve found the degree that can empower you to take the next step. The BA in Liberal Studies allows you to concentrate in the following academic areas: Addiction Studies, Business and Social Entrepreneurship, Child Studies, Creative Writing, Liberal Studies, Psychology, Queer Studies, and Urban Studies. The BA in Liberal Studies degree offers a strong learning foundation through flexible coursework. experiential learning, and hands-on faculty advising. Become part of a powerful community of engaged adult learners, and acquire the skills, knowledge, and real-world experience to meet your goals.

If you’ve gained valuable technical expertise through your current trade but long for career or personal advancement, then an Applied Studies degree can help you maximize the skills you have while satisfying your passion for learning. We help you expand upon your practical knowledge, building on the foundation that you’ve worked so hard on to this point. By understanding complex social and ethical issues and fine-tuning your written and verbal communications skills, you’ll be poised to solve the problems leaders in your profession face every day.

Designed for students who have already excelled in creative fields, this major allows you to more fully understand your industry by gaining business perspectives and a larger context of arts and media. You already have the passion, talent, and commitment to the creative field, but this degree helps you build upon your capacity for problem solving, leadership and management. Learn to better promote and communicate your artistic vision, as well as to make more meaningful career decisions and excel professionally.

The communities in which we live are important to all of us. Fostering a more just community and strengthening interpersonal ties is essential so all citizens have access to a more meaningful, healthy and prosperous life. Explore how oppression, privilege, discrimination, and social and economic disadvantage impact our justice system. Gain critical thinking and ethical decision making awareness. Develop leadership skills to strategically and effectively work on social issues within a professional context.

The Bachelor of Science in Applied Technology and Business Leadership gives students with technical skills an opportunity to develop business skills that will help them advance in their professional field. In this program, you’ll focus on leadership perspectives, planning, and business tools and how to use them in an ethical and socially conscious context. You’ll also gain the interpersonal skills needed to advance yourself effectively within your field.

This degree will help you become a powerful advocate for addiction recovery and prevention. Our curriculum explores the underlying psychological and societal influences of substance abuse and the varied treatment modalities leading to recovery.

Expand your knowledge beyond business management fundamentals and engage in the emerging field of social entrepreneurship. This concentration focuses on the idea that for-profit enterprises can also pursue social missions for the greater good. AULA’s Business and Social Entrepreneurship concentration is designed to help you develop the knowledge necessary for understanding and challenging the professions you will enter and lead. The diverse, interdisciplinary coursework encompasses a variety of perspectives from fields such as philosophy, psychology, and political theory so you can make informed, socially responsible business decisions.

There are many influences that shape children’s perspectives, behavior, and lives. By choosing a minor concentration in Child Studies, you’ll understand the complex relations between community, peers, social agencies, families and schools that influence a child’s development. The Child Studies Concentration curriculum blends clinical and developmental psychology with physiology, neurology, sociology, philosophy, economics, social policy, and the law.

Our creative writing program focuses not just on the mastery of creative writing, but on critical reading and thinking skills that foster a more exemplary understanding of language. Pairing this skill-based education with social justice and community engagement training produces a well-rounded degree that prepares adult learners for a meaningful, rewarding, and creative career. Expand your skills in written and verbal communications, broaden your understanding of social and ethical issues, and solve the problems that leaders in your profession encounter every day.

The psychology concentration has provided AULA’s diverse adult-learner population with a comprehensive and cutting-edge education in psychological theory and practice while emphasizing the core issues of social justice and intercultural studies.

Challenge how you understand identity and become part of a community of advocates challenging broader categories of identity and helping advance greater equality and understanding.

This innovative program recognizes the unique needs and realities of our local and regional human and ecological communities. Students receive the necessary training to become effective change-makers who can envision a socially, economically, racially, and ecologically just future.

Online Undergraduate Degrees

If you’ve gained valuable technical expertise through your current trade but long for career or personal advancement, then an Applied Studies degree can help you maximize the skills you have while satisfying your passion for learning. We help you expand upon your practical knowledge, building on the foundation that you’ve worked so hard on to this point. By understanding complex social and ethical issues and fine-tuning your written and verbal communications skills, you’ll be poised to solve the problems leaders in your profession face every day.

Social challenges are constantly evolving as the traditional roles, lifestyles, and conceptions of identity change alongside public policy. Learn to address the changing social structures of contemporary society and their impact on the growth of individuals and families in various cultural contexts. By understanding human development and how it is affected by cultural perspectives, you will be prepared to empower infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders with the life skills necessary to navigate our constantly evolving society.

Our Human Services Administration degree will give you the skillset to become a leader in your field and move with confidence into supervisory or administrative roles. Understand the diverse functions that occur within organizations to have a comprehensive vision of the wider social context of their inner workings. This new holistic comprehension develops your leadership, analytical and communication skills, as well as knowledge and expertise focused on enhancing the quality of life for individuals, families, and communities.

Customized studies are a hallmark of the Antioch educational experience. Benefit from a core of interdisciplinary, liberal arts courses—building foundational skills for any career—while balancing the breadth and depth of specialized topics relevant to your educational interest. The online BA in Liberal Studies offers you the opportunity to align your studies to your interests—not the other way around.

The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies, Leadership for Service & Change prepares committed individuals for lives of engagement in social justice work within local or global contexts. The goal of this interdisciplinary program is to prepare organizers, advocates, and changemakers who understand self, their communities and the forces that disadvantage certain groups and individuals within those communities, in order to provide leadership for the common good.

Antioch University’s online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Literature and Creative Writing presents an affordable degree completion option, accelerating your progress toward a career in writing while keeping your financial future intact. This program combines an examination of great works of literature with perspective on how to use them to inspire your own writing.

Antioch University’s online Bachelor of Arts in Management degree is an affordable program that provides a knowledgeable foundation to understand and lead change in a shifting, globally oriented world. You will examine management situations from a systemic perspective and address human, organizational, and community issues; enhance leadership skills, and explore how to diagnose problems and intervene effectively with both individual and group situations. You will also learn how to increase productivity and how to effectively engage the workforce in making important management decisions.

 

 

Members of the LA Urban League Young Professionals

As a members of LA Urban League Young Professionals, you are eligible to receive your first class free (AULA campus or online) —  and if you participate in a special mentoring program, you can receive your last class free.

Narrative Assessment

Antioch University’s learning philosophy has always been based on individual evaluation and synthesis of what you’ve learned into demonstrated knowledge. At AU, we use narrative assessment, rather than letter grades, to provide meaningful, actionable evaluation of what you’ve learned. Letter grade equivalencies for graduate school applications or employer tuition reimbursement are available upon request.

Our “no tests, no grades” philosophy appeals to some and differs from tradition for others, but we believe it accommodates people with different learning styles and better prepares you for a career in professional settings where success is often measured by presentations and written communication. AULA coursework values demonstrated learning over test scores, further preparing you for a successful career ahead.

Outcomes

At AU, we are a community of innovators, free-thinkers, and rabble-rousers, determined to make a lasting and positive impact on the world. 

Community service is woven into the very fabric of our University, providing you with meaningful field experiences.  

Financial Aid

Many Antioch University students take advantage of our financial aid options to fund their education. Our Financial Aid team can design an aid package based on your eligibility and personal level of need. We’ll help you explore a variety of federal, state, and institutional financial aid options. You’re welcome to either contact the Financial Aid Office or apply now to see what choices are available for you.

Antioch served me well. The education I received as an adult learner can be molded into so many career paths and also provide a foundation for a life of service.
Claudia KielichBA IN LIBERAL STUDIES, MA IN ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Antioch is truly a very special place. It is uniquely authentic. Its values and unwavering commitment to social justice are not merely words on a page, but are sewn into the fabric of the university.
Angela VincentMA IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
What I appreciate the most about Antioch is the community that was established in each one of the classes. And I don’t feel you get that at other universities.
David DurandMA IN EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE '12
AULA helped me find my path. Getting my BA here led to me getting my master’s degree here and becoming a therapist. I love my job; every day I’m thankful for it, and grateful to have gone to this school. The BA program was really a jumping off point for me that made my life so much bigger and richer than I ever knew it could be.
Khana Lacewell BA IN LIBERAL STUDIES '08, MA IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY '10
Everybody at Antioch University is committed to helping each other and the community. The people here are amazing.
Daniel HuttererBA IN LIBERAL STUDIES '13, TEACHER CREDENTIALING AND MA IN EDUCATION '14

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Culver City, CA 90230

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