UConn Women's Leadership Graduate Certificate Courses

Through four courses, students in the Emerging Women’s Leadership Graduate Certificate Program will learn concepts and theories of leadership, how leadership is both gendered and racialized as predominantly White and male, and how that impacts the experiences of women accessing and thriving in leadership. Students will also explore leadership within practicum placements.

EDLR 6464 - Leadership in Organizations (3 credits, Fall)
This course introduces students to leadership and how leadership can be most effective within organizations. Students will consider, investigate, and critique various models of leadership; develop an understanding of the multiple dimensions of leadership; and examine how organizational structures enhance and hinder leadership effectiveness. Further, students will analyze and self-assess leadership strategies and skills.

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EDLR 6092 - Practicum 1 Seminar (3 credits, Fall)
This seminar focuses on the implementation and application of theory in the student’s area of specialization. Practicums offer hands-on learning opportunities for students and, when coupled with a seminar, enable students to apply the theories they learn in their coursework with intentionality and support. Students will have opportunities to share and gain knowledge from their peers. Topics of discussion include: how to navigate workplace relationships, establishing goals for the practicum experience, prioritizing work and non-work commitments, and identifying work-life and work-work conflict. 

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EDLR 5343 - Gender in Organizational Leadership (3 credits, Spring)
Students will explore why women are disproportionately underrepresented in leadership broadly and how social identities (e.g., race, ethnicity, sexual identity) impact women’s access to, success, and longevity in leadership roles. Students will also consider how individual and organizational conditions (and organizational policies) place women in precarious leadership positions (i.e., the glass cliff). 

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EDLR 6092 - Practicum 2 Seminar (3 credits, Spring)
Students will develop a capstone project that focuses on identifying a problem of practice in their experience and using the learnings from the coursework to develop recommendations for improvement. The topics covered in Practicum 2 will delve more deeply into the intersection of social identities and leadership, including navigating a gendered and racialized work environment, how to engage in organization level change as an emerging leader, and how to develop network and sponsor connections to continue leadership development.