BGU offers two types of Certificates: Certificates of Professional Development and Graduate Certificates:
Certificates of Professional Development
Certificates of Professional Development are offered by BGU for those who love to learn. The classes are typically available continuously and have no academic entry requirements. A wide variety of subjects will soon be available and offer a unique opportunity to expose your community to core BGU values and transformational leadership perspectives. Consider the impact for your church, nonprofit, business, or community to walk through a focused certificate experience together. Professional Development Certificates provide students with practical skills and knowledge that can be used to improve their current work or add new areas of expertise. They are not accredited and cannot be converted into academic credit.
Cost | Varies. Free - $3,000. |
Prerequisite Requirements | Dependent on Certificate. Some are entry level with no prerequisite. Some have a short application process. |
Time | 35 hours at your own pace – 16 hours per month over 10-24 months. |
Instruction Method | Varies – typically includes online aspects as well as hands-on experiential assignments. |
Level of Instructor Involvement | Varies – self guided, self-paced – instructor lead involvement. |
Credit | Certification of Completion. No academic credit. |
Graduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates are an excellent way to experience BGU courses without committing to a full graduate- level degree program. You will be in graduate courses with students from around the world. Every course is built on BGU core values and BGU’s eight perspectives of transformational leadership.
Graduate Certificates are programs of study consisting of a series of graduate level courses offered by Bakke Graduate University. Upon completion, the student receives a graduate certificate. They can be used for continuing education credits and can transfer graduate credits into a graduate degree program.
Cost Free | $6,000 + Travel and Overture Costs where applicable. |
Prerequisite Requirements | Undergraduate degree. Modified BGU Application. |
Time | 3 – 9 Week Modules, Typically completed over 1 year or less. |
Instruction Method | On-line Weekly lessons conducted through zoom and Populi which will include reading and writing at a graduate level. |
Level of Instructor Involvement | Instructor created and guided graduate level course. |
Credit | 12 Graduate Credit Hours. |
For inquiries and additional information please contact the Certificates Program Director.
Certificates of Professional Development
Spiritual Formation
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR MISSIONAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
The Missional Spiritual Direction Certificate Program trains individuals interested in becoming spiritual directors in today’s context. The program provides participants with the necessary skills, knowledge, and practicum to guide others in their spiritual journey while directing them to integrate mission and calling into their practice of spiritual discipline.
CERTIFICATE IN THE IGNATIAN EXERCISES
You are invited into a spiritual adventure which will begin on the third week of January. We will begin the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in a group format, meeting once a week at a mutually convenient time. We will be able to have 3-4 groups to accommodate different time zones. Our focus will be to share and pray over what God has been revealing to us during the week from our meditations and contemplations. Our meditations will focus on Scripture and contemplations will enable us to enter the story using our five senses.
Conflict Resolution
CERTIFIED ARBITRATOR CERTIFICATE (CertArb)
The Certified Arbitrator (CertArb) Certificate certifies that the holder is a competent professional arbitrator. It is the outcome of 50 hours of arbitration skills acquisition training based on rigorous and robust instructions, case studies, and hands-on arbitration of live dispute(s), followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior arbitrator. A BGU Certified Arbitrator (CertArb) is a thoroughbred and confident arbitrator, remarkable for domestic and international arbitration skills.
CERTIFIED MEDIATOR (CertMed)
The Certified Mediator (CertMed) Certificate certifies that the holder is a competent professional mediator. It is the outcome of 45 hours of mediation skills acquisition training, based on rigorous and robust conceptualization, case studies, and hands-on resolution of live conflicts from diverse backgrounds, followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior mediator. A BGU Certified Mediator is a thoroughbred and confident mediator, remarkable for skills in conflict resolution.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION CERTIFICATE
The Certificate of Professional Development in Conflict Resolution certifies that the holder has received a basic introduction to the skills required for effective conflict resolution. Based on the book, How to Resolve a Conflict by Olajide Olagunju. This course is an introduction to the skills required for effective conflict resolution. The lectures discuss how to effectively resolve conflict resolution, both at home and at work. Your perspective of conflict and skills for conflict resolution, in all settings will be sharpened.
Giftedness
DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS
What were you born to do? Everyone everywhere was created to do something. We call that something your “giftedness.” In this series, you will go on a journey of discovering your own unique “giftedness” and experience the profound difference that those insights make in every area of your life.
DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS - IN THE BUSINESS SETTING
Giftedness Guides was created to guide individuals and teams to discover and use their giftedness in ways that transform their work, learning, relationships, and lives in communities everywhere. Their mission is to stimulate human flourishing through unleashing individual giftedness.
DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS - IN THE CHURCH
What were you born to do? Everyone everywhere was created to do something. We call that something your “giftedness.” In this series, you will go on a journey of discovering your own unique “giftedness” and experience the profound difference that those insights make in every area of your life.
GIFTEDNESS GUIDES ACCELERATOR
A giftedness guide is equipped to help others discover their giftedness and then act on that insight in the major areas of their life, such as vocation, relationships, and living with purpose. Most people need a person to help them understand what they’re looking at and then act on it in meaningful ways. By training as a giftedness guide, you can become that person.
Graduate Certificates
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
An Intensive Certificate in Conflict Studies (CCS) is designed for leaders who are interested in being exposed to: (i) scriptural and related secular principles, practice and procedures in conflict resolution and conflict transformation (including conflict mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) applicable at work, in business, at home and in the church; ...