Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
Global Understanding (UG Cert)
Program Purpose
The Certificate in Global Understanding is designed to help students develop an understanding and an appreciation of the peoples, issues and ideas within the global community. Students have an opportunity to take courses with an international content, study a foreign language at the introductory level, and learn about people in other countries through both Internet contact and actual study in an international setting.
Learning Outcomes
Awareness of cultural differences
Demonstrate an awareness of cultural differences.
Cross-cultural competency
Demonstrate elementary-level cross-cultural competency, defined as empathy toward other cultures and the ability to observe analytically another culture.