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Antioch's M.A. in Whole Systems Design 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 Retreat
Prior to the first weekend of the program, you attend an off-site retreat to build community among your peers in the Center for Creative Change.
Core Courses
The M.A. in Whole Systems Design is 66 credits and can be completed in seven quarters.
You complete the following core courses during the first three quarters:
- Critical Inquiry and Ways of Knowing
- Global Pluralism
- Systemic Thinking for a Changing World
- Ecological Sustainability
- Transformative Leadership and Change
Reflective Practicum Courses
- Reflective Practicum 1: Simulation and Case Study
- Reflective Practicum 2: Capstone Change Project
Specialization Courses
During the last four quarters, you complete one course within each of the following:
- Special Topics in Wholistic Perspectives. Sample courses include: Wholophilia: Design as Practice of Wholeness; Mary Parker Follett; Experience of Place; and Metaphor, Worldview and Change.
- Special Topic in Design Theory and Practice. Sample courses include: Visual Literacy Studio: Capturing Mental Images for Creative Thinking; Design Approach: The Art and Science of Creative Change; Context Based Design; and Notating Imagination: Advanced Design Communication.
- Special Topics in Systemic Thinking. Sample courses include: Systemic Thinking: The Art of Making Distinctions; and Advanced Systems.
- Fifteen credits (five courses) of electives
Sample Elective Courses
- Systemic Thinking: The Art of Making Distinctions
- Visual Literacy Studio: Capturing Mental Images for Creative Thinking
- Design Approach: The Art and Science of Creative Change
- Context Based Design
- Notating Imagination: Advanced Design Communication
- Wholophilia: Design as Practice of Wholeness
- Mary Parker Follett
- Experience of Place
- Advanced Systems
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