Womanist Leadership Institute Online Courses
The Womanist Leadership Institute online course program is co-sponsored by The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership and the Leadership Institute of Union Presbyterian Seminary. This program is a series of online courses to promote and support Womanist scholarship and leadership within a continuing education and lifelong learning environment.
To complete the program, participants will engage in three (3) core courses, and three (3) elective courses. The program will be ongoing, with electives varying year to year, allowing participants to complete the requirements within an extended period as needed. Courses are open to all, and no application is necessary. Interested participants will simply register for the courses, and participants may engage the courses without pursuing the program in its entirety. Each course will be capped at thirty (30) participants. Continuing education units (CEUs) will be awarded to those participants who complete the courses; however, no course grades or degree credits will be provided. Participants are able to cancel their registration any time prior to the start of the course for a refund, less a $25 cancellation fee.
The three core courses for the program include:
Womanist Theology: A Primer
Models of Womanist Leadership
Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Electives will vary year to year.
Online Course Format: Weekly class meetings via Zoom Technology, along with assignments posted on Blackboard, the seminary’s learning management system (login credentials provided).
Cost: $175 per course plus 1-2 required texts. If you are a UPSem student, please contact Chris Burton (cburton@upsem.edu) for a student discount code prior to registering.
CEUs: 3.0 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for this event.
2024-2025 online courses offered:
(Elective Course) Embracing the Womanist Tradition: Spiritual Formation, Companionship and Soul Work – Registration closed.
(Core Course) Models of Womanist Leadership – Registration closed.
(Elective Course) Womanist Preaching – More information here.
(Core Course) Womanist Biblical Interpretation – More information here.
(Book Club) Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Redemption by Melanie Jones Quarles – More information here.
When a course capacity is reached, a waiting list will be started.
2023-2024 online courses offered:
(Elective) Reproductive Justice
(Elective) Introduction to Africana Religions
(Core Course) Womanist Theology: A Primer
(Elective) Global Womanisms and Perspectives: Inventing Women and Subverting Gender in the African Sphere
2022-2023 online courses offered:
(Core Course) This Womanist Work: Models of Womanist Leadership
(Elective) Womanist Ways of Worship
(Core Course) Womanist Biblical Interpretation
(Elective) Black Women’s Mental Health as Resistance
2021-2022 online courses offered:
(Core Course) Womanist Theology: A Primer
(Elective) Womanist Activism and Public Witness
(Elective) Proto-Womanist Thought
(Elective) Womanist Social Ethics
