Cohort Information

**A NOTE TO ALL COHORT STUDENTS:**

The majority of your coursework, especially in your first year, will be taken with your cohort virtually. However, a few core classes, electives, and specialization courses will need to be taken outside of the regular cohort schedule.

General Cohort Information:

A cohort is a group of students who enter their program at a fixed time (their first quarter) and follow a set schedule of classes throughout their program (see sample schedule below). Students enroll full-time for eight consecutive quarters of study, taking all required courses in a preset sequence over the two-year period. Students take all courses together.

Students selecting this option should realize that in order to stay in the One-Day-A-Week program, they must continue at full-time status. If they take a Leave of Absence or drop to half-time, they must shift from the Cohort/One-Day to the regular/"flex" schedule program. They must fill out a Change of Program form with Student Services (2nd floor) if leaving the cohort group.

Students may leave the cohort if they choose; however, joining a cohort later than the first quarter is not allowed as students must make sure (a) the cohort's current courses are not redundant to them and (b) they have not already taken courses the cohort will take in the future.

Program Planning: 

Weekday cohort class times (Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the quarter) are at 10am, 1pm, and 4pm, while Saturday cohort classes are at 9am, 12:30pm and 3:15pm. 

Students must also attend a required class in their 5th quarter that will take place over two days (either two Fridays, two Saturdays OR two Sundays), as well as one online course.

In addition, each student must complete 9 units of clinical training, a minimum of two quarters of weekly personal psychotherapy, and 17 additional units either towards a specialization OR towards their general elective requirement. In the case of the general specialization, these units may consist of elective courses, elective workshops, or additional traineeship units. All specialization students must fulfill the course requirements for their specialization using the Tracking Sheet. (Please click the link below to access the Tracking Sheet)

PLEASE READ:

The majority of your coursework, especially in your first year, will be taken with your cohort at the designated time and location. However, in your 5th through 8th quarters, a few core classes, traineeship, electives, and specialization courses will need to be taken outside of the regular cohort schedule as is most convenient, on evenings, weekends, or weekdays as is feasible.

Registering for Cohort classes:

Antioch has committed to cohort students that they will be guaranteed a space in their specific cohort classes up until the end of priority registration (usually the Tuesday of week 11).

You will be able to identify which section is a cohort section because it will have the cohort code as the section ID on the Program Grid and in AU View. For example, classes are listed with the Subject code: PSY, then the course ID: 5310A and then the section ID: SA37. All together it will look like this: PSY-5310A-SA37. 

IF YOU ARE NOT IN A COHORT: You may still either register for a cohort class OR waitlist depending on the size of the cohort. In order to do this you will need to select the section ID with the "X" in it. EVERY cohort class has two sections listed. One of those sections will have an "X" in the section ID. This section is for students NOT in that designated cohort. This "X" section will be listed below the original section when you search for all classes. Below is an example of what it will look like in AU View. In this case, if you are NOT in the SA37 cohort then you would waitlist in the "X" section: PSY-5310A-SA37X. 

When will you be notified that a space has opened up for you? Since cohort members are guaranteed a space in their designated cohort until the end of priority registration, you will be notified when we release any unclaimed spaces to any students on the waitlist for the cohort classes. If there is space in the class you will be sent an automated email letting you know a space has opened up for you to register. If this happens you will register through MyAntioch.