Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Cultural Awareness Training Certificate (undergraduate) Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Cultural Awareness Training Certificate (undergraduate)

College of Liberal Arts >> World Languages and Cultures 

6 hours

A practical study of citizenship and professionalism in multicultural and multilingual environments. The course focuses on managing the challenges that cultural and linguistic diversity present to both organizations and individuals. 

Certificate Requirements

  • A minimum of 6 credit hours toward the certificate must be completed at the University.
  • Credit hours earned for a certificate may be applied toward another degree program. However, a student cannot earn a certificate that is fully embedded (or subsumed) with the requirements of his/her majors or minor, but must include at least three (3) unique credit hours.
  • Coursework taken more than 4 years before the certificate is awarded may not be applied toward certificate requirements.

Required Coursework

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
WLC 422 - Cultural Awareness Training
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3

Elective Course

Select one course from the following:

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
BIOL 251 - Environmental Conservation

USI Core 39: Natural Science (BS); Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
BIOL 362 - Economic Botany

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall (odd-numbered years)
Credits: 4
COMM 192 - Introduction to Mass Communication

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
DTHY 457 - Professional and Current Issues in Oral Healthcare

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ECON 241 - Global Economic Issues

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
EDUC 381 - Language, Literacy, and Culture

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 372 - Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
FREN 275 - The French Film

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Global; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
FREN 308 - Francophone Cultures

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture; Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
GEOG 330 - World Geography

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture; World Language and Culture (BS); Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
GERM 275 - The German Film

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
GERM 308 - Germanic Cultures

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture; Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 111 - World Civilizations I, Beginnings to 1500

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Historical Inquiry, Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
HIST 112 - World Civilizations II, 1500-Present

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Historical Inquiry, Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
GLST 101 - Introduction to Global Studies

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
IPH 401 - Interprofessional Perspectives on Global Health

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
KIN 492 - Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PHIL 366 - Environmental Ethics

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Every other year
Credits: 3
POLS 271 - International Politics

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science (BS); Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
POLS 281 - Comparative Politics

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science (BS); Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
PRFS 301 - The Ethics of Global Engagement

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Global; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
SPAN 275 - The Hispanic Film

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression; Embedded Experience-Global; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
  • Any other course approved for Embedded Experience-Global Credits: 3
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