Global Leadership Certificate

Gain essential leaderships skills, cross-cultural insights and global perspectives.

Combine your interests in global affairs with your desire to gain essential leadership skills.

What Skills Will I Learn?

Through your learning exerience, you'll gain a better understanding of global cultures while developing your leadership skills and global profile:

  • Leadership: Develop your style to inspire and motivate others to engage in positive global change.
  • Effective Communication: Engage with and communicate to diverse global audiences.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Addressing and resolving global challenges collaboratively and creatively.
  • Culture Awareness and Sensativity: Globalize your studies, transcript, and resume with an understanding and appreciation of different cultures.
  • Ethical Decision Making and Empathy: Make ethical leadership decisions that consider the welfare of the global community and the environment.
  • Engagement as a Global Citizen: Participate actively in community and global initiatives.

View Curriculum: Global Leadership Certificate

Program Highlights

Your 18-hour interdisciplinary certificate program includes courses in policy, global studies and civic discourses. The capstone experience will then require you to apply your knowledge and skills to an issue or problem in global leadership.
  • Hands-On Learning

    Our program is more than just a study of leadership and leadership styles. You'll gain hands-on experience, add to your global profile and make yourself more marketable upon graduation.

    The certificate program emphasizes experiential learning by incorporating optional coursework that allows you to participate in simulations, undergraduate research, and internship experiences.

    You'll complete your program with a capstone requirement offering opportunities for service learning, internships, and study abroad experiences related to global leadership.

     

  • Interdisciplinary Faculty Expertise

    You'll learn leadership skills and global insights from our distiguished faculty of scholars and practitioners.

    Our interdisciplinary approach provides you with a mulitfaceted perspective on global leadership from faculty in international studies, business, communication, political science, philosophy, sociology, sustainability, and cultural studies.

  • Location

    You're at the epicenter of global opportunity.

    Energized by the opportunities it provides, we are dynamically connected to the city of Charleston. It serves as a living and learning laboratory for student experiences. It's a unique city like no other, combining its deep-rooted history with a growing reputaiton for innovation and change.

     

Careers & Outcomes

The Global Leadership Certificate program prepares you for a wide range of dynamic careers in an increasingly interconnected world. 

You will earn your certificate with the critical skills, cultural awareness, and strategic decision-making insights needed to excel in various professional settings:

  • International Business
  • Diplomacy and International Relations
  • Global Non-Profits and Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Communication and Media
  • Education