Globally Competent Teaching Certificate

This Undergraduate Certificate in Globally Competent Teaching is meant to supplement the curriculum of teacher education majors at the University of Kentucky. The certificate will provide students with the opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge, and dispositions to improve their global competency as pre-service teachers.

Through globally focused course work, students will learn about teaching strategies, resources, and tools to incorporate global issues and engagement, diverse perspectives, and intercultural learning and dialogue into their future classrooms. Requirements for and assessments of the certificate’s learning objectives are based on the Globally Competent Learning Continuum: http://globallearning.ascd.org/lp/editions/global-continuum/continuum.html.

Several existing and new courses in the college offer international and intercultural perspectives on teaching and education. This certificate will allow students interested in working in the field of education to complete globally minded course work in a thoughtful way with the ability to earn a certificate indicating their global competencies in teaching.

The certificate requires 12 hours of course work as follows:

Required Course

Students must complete the major required course, ideally after the guided electives have been completed.

EDC 454G - CULTURE, EDUCATION AND TEACHING ABROAD Credit(s): 3
OR
EPE 454G - CULTURE, EDUCATION AND TEACHING ABROAD Credit(s): 3

Guided Electives

Choose 2 of the following course options (6 credit hours total):

EDC 310 - GLOBALLY MINDED TEACHING AND LEARNING Credit(s): 3
EDC 315 - INTERCULTURAL AND GLOBAL LEARNING Credit(s): 3
EDS 599 - EDUCATION ABROAD IN EARLY CHILDHOOD, SPECIAL EDUCATION, AND COUNSELING EDUCATION: SUBTITLE REQUIRED Credit(s): 1 - 6 (Variable)
EPE 555 - COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Credit(s): 3
AAS 550 - EDUCATION IN A CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOCIETY Credit(s): 3
OR
EDC 550 - EDUCATION IN A CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOCIETY Credit(s): 3
and choose 1 of the following course options (3 credit hours total):
CLD 380 - GLOBALIZATION: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Credit(s): 3
OR
SOC 380 - GLOBALIZATION: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Credit(s): 3
INT 200 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Credit(s): 3
COM 249 - MASS MEDIA AND MASS CULTURE Credit(s): 3
MCL 200 - READING THE WORLD Credit(s): 3
MCL 300 - CONTACT ZONES: CULTIVATING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE Credit(s): 3
OR
SPA 300 - CONTACT ZONES: CULTIVATING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE Credit(s): 3
EDC 560 - LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN THE ESL CLASSROOM Credit(s): 3
OR
TSL 560 - LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN THE ESL CLASSROOM Credit(s): 3