Graduate Certificate for Global Women’s Empowerment

Course Information

The Graduate Certificate in Citywide Research is made up of four courses.

Students are required to take TUL 620 and choose 3 other courses from the following courses:

Course Descriptions

Women in Development showcases ways for women to move out of poverty through micro-finance initiatives, job training, and creative small business development. It also highlights ways people are addressing barriers that hinder girls from staying in school, and the impact that remaining in school can have in ending generational poverty while simultaneously increasing a wide range of health benefits for themselves and their families in the coming years.

Women and Men in Leadership lays a foundation for men and women to work well together as leaders. It gets at biases that hold back women from pursuing higher levels of employment, and that hold men back from considering them for these roles. It equips people to understand roots of gender inequality and how to contextualize better approaches for their unique cultural backgrounds and situations.

Spirituality of Women and Men in Transformative Leadership fosters greater well-being in students and enables them to facilitate the growth of well-being in others. It also has a strong focus on issues that further peacemaking within and across nations, and across cultural and ethnic boundaries, equipping people to better navigate societal issues that create conflict and cause harm to others.

Resourcing Organizations for Social Impact equips students to be able to effectively navigate the world of finance and philanthropy, so essential for achieving all of these UN Sustainability Goals. As recent Lilly Family School of Philanthropy shows, “Women are giving more frequently and across a wider range of causes, with strong emphasis on health, justice, and inclusivity.” 3 Wealthy philanthropists such as Melinda French Gates are investing funding in global women empowerment issues. In a recent article in Forbes she explained, “We’re at the cusp of what some have called the Great Wealth Transfer. Women are poised to inherit trillions of dollars by 2030, which means they’ll soon control more wealth than they ever have before.” 4 Historically women are more frequently the ones who make the giving decisions for families, and they regularly give more to faith-based and issue-based causes. As such, both women and men need to be equipped to effectively engage with this growing area of philanthropy.