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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 Gathering
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 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
- Whole Systems Design Caucus
Specialization Courses
You take these specialization courses:
- Applications in Human Systems
- Design for Social Innovation
- Structure of Meaning: Distinctions, Intentions and Outcomes
- Systemic Change and Persistence
- Four courses of electives
- Applications of Sustainable Change
Sample Elective Courses
- Design as Practice of Wholeness
- Experience of Place
- Metaphor, Worldview and Change
- Specialization and elective courses from other Center degree programs
- Independent Studies
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