Interfaith Leadership Certificate - Certificate

In today’s increasingly complex and religiously diverse world, there is an urgent need for interfaith cooperation, which is characterized by respect for individual religious or non-religious identities, by the capacity to create and sustain mutually inspiring relationships with people of differing faith commitments, and by mastering the vision, knowledge and skills that facilitate the ability to come together across religious differences in service to a common good. The emerging field of Interfaith Studies provides students with an appreciative knowledge of the ways that religious and non-religious commitments shape peoples' lives as well as with the vision and the necessary skills to engage with people of differing world views and faith-commitments. This 18-credit interdisciplinary certificate program has been carefully designed to build undergraduate student capacity for serving as an Interfaith Leader, regardless of the career that you may choose. This Certificate program can be combined with any major or minor and will add real value to any post-graduation employment or graduate-level studies that you seek.

 The interdisciplinary nature of this certificate allows you to select from classes already being offered in religious studies, philosophy, history, anthropology, and many other majors, while adding a core set of courses that teach the theory and method. A key component of this Certificate program is the combination of classroom instruction together with opportunities to use these concepts and skills to help solve “real” world challenges through a practicum or community-based internship experience. It is intended to add value to any undergraduate major and it has been carefully designed to give you both the tools and the experience to share authentically, engage respectfully, and to bridge religious difference in order to serve the common good.