If the RFS Certificate is to become a reality, it must go through several important reviews and approval processes. With these caveats in mind, we offer you a glimpse of how the dream looks in our imaginations, via a list of FAQ's. A certificate program is not a degree program, and thus is not necessarily limited to students enrolled in a degree program at Virginia Wesleyan College. Community members or students from another institution could enroll under the status of special students. For students with an interest in religious freedom issues regardless of major, the certificate provides an educational credential that indicates their completion of and competency in a multi-disciplinary course of study.
Religious diversity is a fact of modern life locally, nationally, and globally.
Our communities, schools, and workplaces bring us in daily contact with persons of wildly divergent religious faiths, practices, duties and beliefs. Businesses, schools, government and private organizations need employees equipped with the knowledge and inter-personal skills to ensure that such a diverse group works together to the best advantage of the purposes and goals of the organization. Indeed, the challenge of the century is living, working, and governing together in the face of this diversity. Completion of supervised field experience required, in settings associated with services for the elderly. This is where academic knowledge fuses with practical process to achieve real-world results.