Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in DEI Global Perspectives in the Google Workplace, University of Colorado Boulder

Start your DEI journey in a global environment. Learn how to implement DEI strategies in your environment.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Self-examination and reflection
  • Understanding the influence of identity and background on thoughts and actions
  • Building a toolbox for transformative change
  • Leadership in the workplace
  • Creating lasting change
  • DEI program development
  • Bias-free job descriptions
  • Managing job interviews
  • Creating affinity groups
  • DEI Index Evaluation

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Leadership in the workplace
  • Engineering Management
  • Technology Leadership Roles
  • Management positions in engineering
  • Roles related to equality, diversity and inclusion (DEI)
  • DEI consultants
  • Technology Project Managers
  • Human Resources Managers
  • Technology Team Managers
  • Organizational Development Experts

Internship – a three-part course series

In this internship, you will engage in a process of self-examination, reflection, and action to advance equality, diversity, and inclusion (DEI) through a global perspective.

Courses

  • Course One: Exploring your identity and background and their impact on your thoughts, actions, and relationships with others.
  • Course Two: Building a Toolbox for Transformative Change through Workplace Leadership.
  • Third course: Working on what to do after learning and how to create lasting change.

This internship can be completed for academic credit as part of the Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform.

The ME-EM program is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals transition into leadership and management roles in the fields of engineering and technology.

For more details about the ME-EM program, visit the website: Coursera ME-EM .

Credit for the internship logo image: Tim Marshall. Available on Unsplash at Unsplash .

Hands-on Learning Project

During the internship, learners will engage in self-reflection to learn more about themselves and how their identity has shaped their thoughts, actions, and relationships with different communities.

Learners will then apply their knowledge to develop a DEI plan for their industry, including:

  • Bias-free job descriptions and job interviews.
  • Creating affinity groups.
  • Evaluation of DEI indicators.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Your world and what makes it

Course 1
22 hours

What will you learn?

  • Recognize the experiences in your life that have shaped your beliefs.
  • Discover how ideas about race, gender, and culture shape your environment.
  • Identifying strategies for resistance and survival in situations of marginalization.
  • Establish awareness to support disadvantaged populations.

Skills you will acquire

  • Self-awareness
  • Anti-racism
  • Intersectionality
  • marginality
  • bias

‘Their’ world and how you define it

Course 2
21 hours

What will you learn?

  • Develop an understanding of tangible ways that society can create inclusive spaces.
  • Introduce issues of social justice in local and global contexts.
  • Examine and think about your identity, your background and experiences and their impact on the relationships between you and your environment.
  • Analyzing a contemporary global issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Skills you will acquire

  • Self-awareness
  • Anti-racism
  • Intersectionality
  • feminism
  • Neurodiversity

Our world and how to accept it

Course 3
20 hours

What will you learn?

  • Exploring practical methods for integrating DEI into the workplace.
  • An assessment of how transformational leadership is designed for DEI in a challenging and complex global atmosphere.
  • Recognizing and addressing bias in recruiting and retaining diverse talent.
  • Determine how to be a friend or partner in the workplace as you grow and improve employee/business resource groups and affinity groups.

Skills you will acquire

  • Equality
  • Self-awareness
  • leadership
  • Diversity
  • inclusion