The University of Redlands' Certificate in LGBTQ Leadership's online coursework equips students with an in-depth understanding of the key issues that face the LGBTQ community and reveals the benefits of an intersectional approach to leadership.
As the LGBTQ movement continues to expand across the country with advocacy and social-service organizations in schools, colleges, and community centers, the need and demand for specialized LGBTQ Leadership training have risen. This LGBTQ Leadership Certificate is designed to address this need, providing training for mission-driven individuals, aspiring leaders, teachers, and activists to be more informed and experienced allies for the LGBTQ community.
The Certificate program increases awareness of what is essential for providing effective LGBTQ leadership. Through the curriculum, LGBTQ Certificate students will:
The Certificate in LGBTQ Leadership is an accelerated program that can be completed in eight months and includes six online seminar courses costing $400 each. The online structure of the certificate seminars is ideal for working professionals, fitting seamlessly within busy schedules.
Students seeking the certificate in LGBTQ+ Leadership need to complete all three required courses and then select three additional elective courses; options outlined below. Seminars are four weeks long with one live session per week, each lasting up to an hour and a half.
The certificate program aims to train and increase the number of LGBTQ community leaders through leading theory, hands-on learning, and collaboration with peers, instructors, and LGBTQ organizations. Students are encouraged to engage with members of their cohort to work on a community project that puts seminar knowledge into action, expanding their professional skill set and networks.
The online Certificate in LGBTQ Leadership empowers students to apply specialized training in effective methodologies for leadership in their communities in order to make an impact that changes the world.
Address the individual’s experience– their socio-cultural contexts, biases, and causes/ effects of discrimination and oppression. Learn action-oriented, ethical and inclusive leadership skills for diverse communities that uncovers common roots and builds from and works with instead of solving for.
Explore the historic influence of patriarchy, the contributions of science and medicine to the understanding of gender, and the targeting of transgender people with policies and laws. Analyze social organizing forces and develop trans-affirming leadership competencies.
Gain insights and competencies to effectively manage the first task of any LGBTQ/LGBTQ-allied organization– the creation of safe space. Address language; community-based boundary creation; respect of beliefs, values, and spiritual backgrounds; and legal parameters.
Learn to engage stakeholders, increase buy-in, accelerate collaboration, organize and mobilize resources, and network for global change. Competencies for bottom-up leadership for grassroots, social-change, and/or community-based activism organizations will be acquired.
Contribute to the mission of an LGBTQ organization by critical analysis of the ties between organizational growth and health to fundraising, communications, and the relationships between internal stakeholders. Gain competencies in the fundamentals of communications, fundraising, programming, and growth management.
Develop comprehensive understanding of the impact of family acceptance and family rejection upon LGBTQ youth and adults. Analyze of the impact on physical and mental health. Gain competencies and develop best practice strategies to strengthen organizations that support LGBTQ persons and families.
Examine spirituality and religion as the sense of connection to something larger; as resources to enable activists to maintain perspective, to combat fatigue and sustain hope in the midst of work; and recognize their roles and their impact as a bridge and/or barrier when doing equality work.
Focus on the global perspective of LGBTQ rights as human rights and as a foundation for equality like the UN’s work in 70+ countries where being LGBTQ+ is illegal. Do advocacy that recognizes the effects of growing global migration; and leading with frameworks that are rooted locally, reaching globally.
