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No certificate courses are currently being offered. The descriptions below outline areas listed by BIS; they are not a current schedule or enrollment offer.
Professional development at BIS connects Islamic learning with skills for religious leadership, education, and service. Explore the areas below, browse past courses and workshops, or ask BIS about future learning needs.
Trains chaplains and imams to provide counseling, pastoral care, leadership, and guidance to diverse Muslim and non-Muslim communities based on Quranic and Prophetic methods.
The certificate is designed to train a variety of practitioners who will serve in diverse counseling roles to support Muslim couples, families, and youth. Participants will develop spiritual and social counseling skills to address inter-personal and family dynamics, with an awareness of how these are affected by both internal factors, such as individual psychology and spirituality, and external factors such as racism, unemployment, and relationships with extended family.
Teaches educators to create spiritually-uplifting curricula and apply Islamic educational philosophies with an aim to solve common contemporary educational problems in the Muslim-American communities.
This certificate is designed to train youth leaders in the knowledge, skill, and characteristics of an effective and inspiring Muslim community leader according to the prophetic example. Youth leaders will obtain essential training in core leadership, communication, and management techniques and methods, enabling them to serve as mentors to others.
This certificate is designed to provide board directors, leaders, and managers of Islamic communities and organizations with the necessary knowledge, skills, and characteristics of an effective and inspiring leader. Using the prophetic example, participants will be trained in core leadership, communication, and management techniques and methods, enabling them to serve as a guide and mentor to others.
Provides participants with the necessary knowledge to address current bioethical issues affecting Muslim patients and clinicians from an Islamic perspective. These include end of life care, brain death, clinical practice, and Muslim patient advocacy.
Prepares participants to demonstrate the detailed process by which a Muslim bioethicist makes an assessment of new therapeutic advances and technologies from an Islamic perspective. These include genetic manipulations, reproductive issues, and comparative bioethics.
This certificate is designed to train public speakers in the art of public speaking, providing them with essential leadership skills such as delivering powerful and impactful speeches and sermons for both religious and non-religious occasions. Participants will learn how to tailor and adapt their communication for optimal impact and how to navigate communications with a variety of audiences.
These non-degree program descriptions do not establish current enrollment availability or professional licensure. Contact BIS for current program requirements and consult the relevant professional body about any additional qualifications for a regulated role.
Organizations can use the speaker and workshop request page to discuss a learning event with BIS.
For questions about future offerings or certificate requirements, contact BIS.