Program Overview
The Global Perspectives Certificate equips students with knowledge, skills, and experiences to navigate global challenges. Through coursework and international experiences, students develop cross-cultural communication skills, enhancing their competitiveness in professional programs and the global workforce. The program emphasizes international perspectives, cultural understanding, and the development of engaged global citizens.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Global Perspectives Certificate is an undergraduate academic certificate designed for students to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be engaged global citizens. The program aims to help students develop cross-cultural communication skills and enhance their competitiveness to enter a professional program or the global workforce.
Careers:
The Global Perspectives Certificate is designed to enhance students' competitiveness for professional programs or the global workforce.
Other:
The Global Perspectives Certificate is open to all majors and is administered through each college and school in collaboration with the International Studies Program and International Affairs. The program requires coursework and international experiences, such as study abroad, student exchange, internship, volunteer service projects abroad, and student teaching abroad. The program highlights include:
- Enhancing competitiveness for professional programs or the global workforce.
- Acquiring international experience through various opportunities.
- Developing cross-cultural communication skills. The following courses are examples of courses that could be taken for the certificate:
- Introduction to International Studies (3 hrs)
- Global Perspectives in Popular Music (3 hrs)
- Global Development: Issues and Challenges (3 hrs)
- Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 hrs)
