I'm looking for a one-shot leadership course, from some sort of online program. To make this more of a needle in a haystack, I'd like to be able to start/end the course any time and not have it be more than $1K. Thanks in advance for any ideas. . .
eCornell has a few leadership courses: http://www.ecornell.com/certificate-programs/#other They are quite pricey (start around $2000), but eCornell offers sometimes substantial discounts (e.g. 25% off last December).
Check out Fairfield University in CT. they have a one class leadership course that is UD undergraduate credit (3 credits). You get a "Certificate in Leadership Development" for about $1500. It seems like a pretty good deal to me. http://www.fairfield.edu/uc/uc_leadership_dev.html Additional Info: Cost: $1,485 Dates: The next public open-enrollment program begins May 24, 2010 and runs to July 2, 2010. Course: Take this course for undergraduate credit - course GS 301
There are several schools which let students take single courses without registering ... for example, APU offers a course called "Leadership & Motivation" (tuition would be $750 for the course): http://www.apu.apus.edu/academic/schedule/course/MGMT312 APU's courses run pretty much every month, so you can start pretty much any month you want, although it's not self-paced, it's an 8-week course, so you will have due dates for assignments and test(s) if any. If you'd like a certificate in leadership, the Fort Hays State University "Certificate in Leadership" requires three courses, not one, but the cost to do all three is only $1,512: https://www.fhsu.edu/virtualcollege/degrees/Certificates/leadership/
This course looks great - thanks for the find. You know... the eCornell stuff looks great too, but I just get uneasy about many of these cert programs being noncredit - not with this Fairfield cert (even if it's just undergrad credit).