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Area of Concentration

PURPOSE: The Leadership & Organiza-tional Studies concentration engages students in reflective inquiry into the nature of dynamic leadership and effective organizational life. Particular emphasis is placed on theories and models for guiding systemic and participatory change in a quickly changing, interconnected and multicultural world. Students electing this focus are interested in pursuing work in fields such as management, human resources, business, whole systems design, public policy, advocacy, and leadership or administration in education, health care and social services. Students completing this concentration also acquire the necessary prerequisites for successful graduate study in these fields.

CORE COURSEWORK:

1) Introduction or Overview. A course in this area provides a general orientation to or overview of theories of organiza tional behavior, the evolution of organizational/ management theories over the 20th century, contemporary understandings of organizational functioning and operation, and the psychology of organizations. Sample

classes that meet this core requirement:

• Introduction to Non-Profit Management • Organizational Psychology

• Human Resources Management • Introduction to Business 2) Systems Change. One to two courses are required that develop students’ understanding of organizations as complex adaptive iving systems, emphasizing the dynamics of change and the role of leaders as prompters and guides of organizational learning and change. Sample classes that would meet this core requirement:

• Far-From-Equilibrium: Systems Perspectives on Change

• Narrating Change: Stories for Collective Action

• Coaching for Leadership & Change 3) Systems Change or Leadership. A second course is required in either Systems Change or Leadership.

4) Leadership. One to two courses in this area of concentration should directly address the leadership role, taking up issues in contemporary leadership theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on what it means to be an effective leader. Sample classes:

• Case Studies in Leadership • The Resilient Leader

• Expeditionary Leadership: Lessons in Group Facilitation

• Servant Leadership

• Coaching for Leadership & Change 5) Theorizing Culture & Difference.

Courses that fulfill this requirement analyze culture and difference as reflections of a people’s collective history as well as their respective

aspirations for the future within hierarchal structures of inequality and oppression. Courses sharpen theoretical and practical understanding of unjust power relations in areas such as race, gender, class, and/or sexuality.

Furthermore, students will explore how culture as a contested site has been utilized by historically marginalized groups to imagine as well as realize a more just world. It is recommended that students complete or are concurrently enrolled in Diversity, Power, and Privilege (DPP) before completing this particular concentration requirement.

Sample classes include:

• Critical Theories of Race • The African-American Experience • Race, Justice and Political Reality • Border Crossings: A Multicultural Journey through Film

• Translating Gender • Literature of Displacement

• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

• Postcolonialism, Diasporas, and Narratives of Resistance

6) Community Engagement, Activism &

Leadership Skills. A final required course provides the opportunity to develop skill in facilitative leadership.

Students are supported to learn specific strategies to facilitate a wide variety of groups in ways that promote collabora tive exploration, decision-making, learning, change and action. Possible classes include:

• The Power of Engaging: Listening, Collaborating, Facilitating

• Coaching for Leadership & Change • Community Organizing in Action • International Activism

• Intercultural Communications

POSSIBLE ANTIOCH ELECTIVES:

• Political Economy • Green Marketing

• Triple Bottom Line Accounting and Management

SAMPLE TRANSFER ELECTIVES:

• Non-Profit Volunteer Management • Grant Writing

• Small Business Entrepreneurship • Business Law

• Business Communications • Personnel Supervision

SAMPLE COMMUNITY/FIELD-BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES:

• Doing market research for a café and bookstore

• Raising awareness about multicultural issues in one’s work team/division • Apprenticing with an interpersonal communications skills trainer • Assisting a family owned business develop a human resources program • Internship based on a project manage ment initiative at work

SAMPLE SYNTHESIS PROJECTS:

• Interviewing five leaders of non-profits and comparing their leadership styles and management approaches • Writing a case study analysis applying three theories of leadership & change to a current situation in one’s workplace • Developing and implementing a volunteer training workshop

• Leading a change initiative at one’s workplace

Psychology

Area of Concentration

PURPOSE: The goal of the Psychology concentration is to prepare students for graduate studies in psychology or social work, with the ultimate goal of working as counseling professionals. Students with interdisciplinary interests in areas such as art and psychology (or art therapy), or writing and psychology, might also pursue this structured concentration.

CORE COURSEWORK:

1) Personality Theory. This course explores the major Western and Eastern personality theories and theorists within their cultural and historical contexts in order to provide students with a broader understanding of the evolution of ideas concerning human nature. Attention is paid to the interaction of the individual with the social milieu, the cultural biases within theory, and the effect of personal history on theoretical claims. Antioch's course that meets this requirement is:

• Theories of Personality

2) Abnormal Psychology. This course is designed to introduce students to the theories and concepts of human behavior, as understood in the field of psychology. Topics include: defining abnormal behavior; understanding the

historical context; reviewing psycho logical models and forms of assessment;

delineating the major categories of abnormal behavior; treatment interventions; and social, cultural, ethical and legal issues related to this area of study. Antioch's course that meets this requirement is:

• Abnormal Psychology

3) Developmental Perspectives. A course meeting this requirement offers a broad perspective of human development across the lifespan, encompassing historical and theoretical views of developmental tasks from birth to death. Upon a backdrop of physical, cognitive and psychosocial aspects of development, this course examines development and the effect of subjectivity on the individual’s lived- experience throughout life. The primary objective is to provide students with an awareness of what the lived experience of any individual at different ages might be, with the aim of increasing empathy and understanding of developmental challenges and achievements. The typical course students take to meet this requirement is:

• Life Span Development

4) Counseling Skills. A course in this area provides students an opportunity to explore the counseling role with its unique implications and broad-based value across a wide variety of personal and professional disciplines. Students develop an understanding of the stages of the counseling relationship and gain insight into their own strengths, weaknesses, and desires as a “helper”

and/or as a helping professional.

Students work with the basic building blocks of the counseling/helper role small group role-playing and feedback.

Students also witness role-playing with several professional counselor/therapists of varied disciplines. Issues related to

counseling people from a wide variety of backgrounds, cultures and belief systems, will be addressed, as well ethical issues and standards. The course is designed for students considering a vocation in the helping professions, as well as those just wanting to increase listening and communication skills. The typical course students take to meet this requirement is:

• Counseling Skills

5) Literature of the Human Experience.

A course meeting this requirement explores the value of the literary lens in contributing to students’ understanding of the human experience. Dimensions of human experience such as culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and social class are explored through literature. Courses should address questions such as what is the relationship between literature and psychology? What is the value of literary analysis? How can poetry, memoir, the novel, and short fiction enhance the student’s understanding of the human experience? Sample qualifying classes include:

• Border Crossing: A Multicultural Journey Through Film and Literature

• Psychology and Literature

• The American Family in Literature and Film

6) Social Science Research. A class in this area provides the student with an undergraduate foundation in social sciences research methodology and helps prepare students for graduate level study. The selected course should provide the student with an under- standing of the value, methodology, history, and critiques of social sciences research with attention to both quantitative and qualitative method- ologies. An opportunity to conduct some kind of social sciences research

project would be an additional component of the selected course.

Sample courses that would meet this core requirement include:

• Social Science Research • Statistics

POSSIBLE ANTIOCH ELECTIVES:

• Women and Mental Health • Food, Health & Mental Health • Transpersonal Psychology • Jungian Psychology • Children and Social Policy • Grassroots Social Movements • Intercultural Communications SAMPLE TRANSFER ELECTIVES:

• Chemical Dependency Counseling • Social Psychology

SAMPLE COMMUNITY/FIELD-BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES:

• Practicum with Seattle’s Alcohol and Drug Crises Helpline.

• Volunteer with families in need at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center • Service learning project at Lambert House, which serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth

• Counseling internship with a mental health agency

SAMPLE SYNTHESIS PROJECTS:

• Advocacy project working for human rights for those with mental illness • Review of the research on the applica tion of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to female adolescents with substance abuse problems

• Oral history project with family members examining the role of depression in three generations of women’s lives

Social Justice Studies