Global+ Certificate Program
Kirsten Sheppard, Director, Center for Global Engagement and Coordinator
The Global+ Certificate Program is designed to foster the skills, habits, and mindset of global competence. Global competence is the capacity to understand and appreciate local and global issues, diverse perspectives and world views, and interact appropriately and effectively with people from different cultures and identities. The Global Plus Certificate program offers a valuable additional credential to the student’s academic program in a package that is quite accessible and attainable. This program allows students from any major to achieve global competency while pursuing their chosen field.
Specifically, student outcomes include learning to:
Think globally: students will have an increased knowledge of their relationship to the world; think about issues from a global perspective; gain an appreciation for other world cultures, viewpoints, and perspectives.
Communicate effectively: students will improve their foreign language skills and their ability to communicate with people across cultural and language divides.
Contribute responsibly: students will take action by using their global knowledge to interact and build relationships with people from other cultures; demonstrate respect, open-mindedness, understanding and flexibility in behavior and ways of thinking; help others to embrace multiple perspectives.
Certificate Requirements
Requirements List
GLOBAL+ CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS:
The Global+ Certificate is awarded to students who fulfill a prescribed set of requirements. These requirements include three main elements: coursework, co-curricular global engagement, and global experience. More specifically, these three elements are:
1. Coursework
9 credit hours including the following:
INT 201: Contemporary Global Issues (3 hrs.)
2 Global+ designated courses (GL+)––these may include language above the 100-level (6 hrs.)
NOTE: Global+ students are encouraged to take the INT-section of MCW 400: Senior Year Seminar.
2. Co-Curricular Global Engagement
a. Three Global Engagement Workshops (aligned with semester focus)
Workshop 1: Global Awareness: Introduction to Global Competency & how to use certificate program
Workshop 2: Global Engagement: Maximizing your Immersive Experience
Workshop 3: Global Competency: Application in your degree & life
b. Three Global Engagement Activities
Students would engage in a minimum of 3 experiences (may be of the same type)
• Events (e.g., Speakers/Dialogues/Global Engagement Program)
• Leadership (Diversity Organizations)
• Program Participation (iMentor, ALANA, global themed community etc.)
Tracking: through web-based reporting form
3. Global Experience (International or Domestic**)
Participation in a Global+ approved program:
Option 1: Study Abroad (travel study, 3+ week summer, semester or year)
Option 2: Internship or Community Engagement Abroad
Option 3: US-based program with a global and/or language focus
**If an undergraduate student is unable to travel abroad, the student can fulfill this requirement through Study Away study or internship opportunities.
*NOTE: At least 1 Global+ designated course or the global experience should focus on a non-Western culture or country.
The International Programming Committee approves programs and may collaborate with academic departments and the Career Center for programs/experiences that are simultaneously fulfilling the GL+ requirements and Maryville College Works, major requirements, or scholarship requirements. Internships pursued for credit must follow all procedures and meet all requirements of academic departments. International Internships must also follow protocols established by the Center for Global Engagement. Certificate requirements may be satisfied by internships with or without academic credit, and may be paid or unpaid.