California Implicit Bias Training
Implicit bias—the unconscious attitudes and stereotypes that impact our actions and decisions—can be a controversial and confusing subject. However, as a 2019 Newsday Long Island real estate exposé revealed, implicit bias can have a significant impact on real estate professionals’ interactions with consumers. With this in mind, the California Department of Real Estate mandated this two-hour course to make licensees aware of what implicit bias is, explain how to recognize it in themselves, and understand the illegal and immoral impact it has on the public. It also examines explicit and systemic biases and their impact on Californians.
This course explores the roots of implicit bias in government-sanctioned practices such as redlining and blockbusting, then shows licensees how to recognize their own biases.
The course meets California’s mandatory requirement for two hours of Implicit Bias Training.
Course highlights include:
- Implicit bias and its various forms
- Explicit bias and systemic bias
- Societal impacts of biases
- Historical and social impacts of bias
- Fair housing prohibited actions and enforcement
- California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act
- Role play: recognizing and combating implicit bias
State Requirements For California
California State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Every four years
Hours Required: 45 hours
Real estate salespersons renewing an original license for the first time, must complete 45 clock hours of DRE-approved continuing education consisting of:
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Four separate 3-hour courses in the following subjects: ethics, agency, trust fund handling, and risk management
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3-hour Fair Housing course which must including an interactive participatory component
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2-hour Implicit Bias Training course
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18 hours of consumer protection courses
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The remaining clock hours to complete the 45 hours of continuing education may be related to either consumer service or consumer protection courses.
California Department of Real Estate
Street Address: 651 Bannon Street, Suite 500, Sacramento, CA 95811
Telephone: 877-373-4542
Contact California Dept. of Real Estate
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