Intercultural Competence Mentorship, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

About the Program

As an affiliate of the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (OIGP), the Intercultural Competence Mentorship Certificate (ICMC) provides graduate students with a mentorship skillset specific to intercultural competence development.

Intercultural competence has been defined as “a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts” (Bennett, J.M., 2008). It entails attitudes, knowledge, and skills such as openness, curiosity, self-awareness, empathy, communication, knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks, emotional resilience, and much more.

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Program Requirements

9 Credits Required

Additional Information

• Portfolio Requirement. For each of the 3 courses:
  • 1-2 artifacts that demonstrate growth/learning.
  • Brief (1-2 paragraphs or a short recording is fine) critical reflection on your growth as a mentor of intercultural competence through the course. 
  • Students should feel free to borrow from work they submitted for courses and information submitted on Qualtrics about the Worldview/Diversity course and the Mentorship course.
• For the Applied Learning Component:
  • List of activities and hours logged
  • Critical reflection on growth through the experience
• Capstone:
  • Written or filmed reflective narrative in which the student summarize their strengths and growth edges as a mentor, brings in future goals, personal insights, etc. 
  • Students are encouraged to consider future employers as the audience.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Apply a deep understanding of cultural worldview frameworks and awareness of cultural diversity to a variety of personal and professional settings.
• Excel as a mentor in guiding the individual developmental processes of others. For example: by exhibiting skills in leadership, interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, individual reflection, classroom management, and group dialogue facilitation.
• Design, implement, and assess theoretically-grounded and research-informed formal and informal intercultural learning opportunities for groups and individuals, in person and in virtual settings.

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