Community and Organizational Leadership Certificate

The Certificate in Community and Organizational Leadership is an interdisciplinary, multi-course program that examines the meanings, values, practices, and institutions of leadership. The certificate integrates commitment to personal and professional development; including understanding influence through interpersonal communication skills, leading effective teams, resolving conflict, and creating a positive learning organizational culture. The integration of these skills within the administration of justice system will result in more effective professional and community interactions, and provides students with the framework, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change.

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The Community and Organizational Leadership Certificate is intended to help students work through real workplace or career challenges, whilegaining perspective from professionals in the administration of justice field. It will assist students seeking jobs in public service as well as assistworking students who are currently seeking to professionally advance. Additionally our Administration of Justice Department Advisory Board strongly recommended this certificate be offered, as is reflected in the enclosed minutes. 

1. Develop analytical thinking and professional skills to formulate new leadership strategies and ways of exercising leadership, whether in aposition of authority or just one member of a group.

2. Identify biases in judgment and incorporate structured decision-making techniques empirically shown to enhance decision-making.

3. Identify the relationship between leadership and authority and methods of building community through the application of leadership. 

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 42	Leadership & Integrity	3	S1
ADMJ 50	Introduction to Administration of Justice	3	S1
ANTHROPOLOGY 3	Social and Cultural Anthropology	3	S2
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 70	Community Relations	3	S2

Select two courses from the following (6 units) Units ADMJ 41 Legal Persuasion and Argument 3 units COMM 1 Fundamentals of Speech Communication 3 units COMM 10 Interpersonal Communication 3 units PSY 1 General Psychology 3 units  SOCI 1 Principles of Sociology 3 units Total Units: 18 Units

According to LMI data, there is a projected annual gap of about 858 students in the Bay region and 148 students in the East Bay Sub-Region.

There are no similar programs with our top code and emphasis in administration of justice in our service area offering this type of certificate.