How to Apply | Graduate Certificates

Center for Creative Change

  • Business Leadership and Change Management
  • Ecological Planning and Design

  • Effective Communication Strategies

  • Environmental Education
  • Integrated Skills for Sustainable Change
  • Organizational Dynamics
  • Systems Thinking and Design

This graduate center offers an integrated model of professional studies. The center’s certificate programs, consisting of six courses each, can enhance your ability to lead and manage change in your business, organization and community. Degrees in management, whole systems design, organizational psychology and strategic communication, environment and community also are available.

Application Deadlines

The application process for degree programs and certificates is the same.

 

For admission in… Apply by…
Fall 2008 Apply now

Center-specific Admission Requirements

  • Ability to work collaboratively with other students and faculty in a learning environment
  • Ability for reflection, self-awareness, critical thinking and sustained inquiry
  • Ability to initiate independent academic work with a high degree of responsibility and self-direction
  • Demonstrated evidence of organizational, conceptual and expressive skills, including writing and oral communication
  • Competency in using computerized communication tools and access to a computer with Internet connection
  • At least two years practical work experience relevant to your program of interest
  • Two letters of recommendation from individuals who can discuss your strengths and weaknesses as a graduate student. One letter should be from a person who has observed you in a learning setting, and the other from a person who has supervised you in work related to your proposed area of study. (Use forms in this publication.)

Admission Essay Instructions

Submit a five-page, typed, double-spaced essay. Your essay should be thorough and detailed. It will serve as a writing sample and will help determine a fit between your goals and capabilities and the program.

In your essay, please include the following:

  1. Describe your personal, professional and educational history, and specifically address how these elements relate to your educational and career goals.
  2. Describe your ideas and expectations for your graduate program and how you believe Antioch's program will help you attain your goals.
  3. Explain how your experience, skills and general competencies prepare you for graduate work, giving special attention to the admission requirements.

Enrollment Deposit

If you are accepted into the program, you must submit a non-refundable enrollment deposit of $150 within three weeks. Once paid, the fee will reserve a space for you and will apply to your first quarter’s tuition.