Earn a microcredential while completing your Stout Core classes. In whatever career path you choose, you're bound to work with team members and clients from a diverse set of cultural backgrounds and life experiences. UW-Stout's certificate in intercultural competency equips students with the cultural understanding and practical skills necessary to succeed in today's globally connected workplace. Through beginning coursework in a foreign language and courses in the study of human culture and interaction, you'll become prepared for effective communication and the intercultural exchange of ideas, all while working toward completing your Stout Core requirements.
Career-Defining Curriculum
This certificate offers students a credential that proves to employers that they have gained proficiency in working with stakeholders from diverse cultures, with a particular focus on intercultural communication.
Certificate Requirements
Program Highlights
- Earn your certificate in four courses (12-14 total credits).
- Complete your certificate while fulfilling your Stout Core requirements. No additional credits needed.
Certificate Outcomes
- Develop a heightened awareness of one's own cultural background, beliefs and biases.
- Demonstrate an awareness of differences among, between and within specific cultures that shows appreciation for the value of diverse perspectives.
- Communicate effectively across cultural contexts.
- Analyze the historical, social and political factors that influence intercultural dynamics.
- Demonstrate cultural knowledge and ethical decision-making in interactions with others.
- Apply theories from anthropology and intercultural communication to propose solutions to real-world problems.