Global Understanding Certificate

Let people know you are ready for the future!

The certificate helps you understand and appreciate the peoples, issues and ideas within the global community. You earn it by taking courses with international content, studying a foreign language at the introductory level, and learning about people in other countries through both Internet contact and actual study in an international setting.

Requirements

  • A minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA is required for admission. The student must maintain a 2.5 average in the certificate courses to receive the Certificate in Global Understanding.

The certificate requires 15 s.h. of credit as follows:

  1. Core – 9 s.h.
    • A Global Understanding course drawn from any discipline – 3 s.h.
    • 1001 and 1002 courses of the same foreign language – 6 s.h.
    • (You may receive credit either through successful completion of courses with a C or better, or through a language placement exam. The foreign language requirement may be waived for international students whose native language is not English, in which case an additional 6 s.h. of approved electives are required.)
  2. Elective courses – 6 s.h.
    • Choose courses, each from a different discipline, from the list of International Studies Major courses, or, take other courses approved by the International Studies Executive Committee
  3. An approved academic study abroad program or internship of at least one summer session.
    • (International students may substitute an equivalent period of study at ECU.)

Portfolio for the Certificate

Students pursuing the Certificate in Global Understanding will need to submit a portfolio via Canvas listing their accomplishments. Access to the portfolio is provided by contacting the Director of the International Studies Undergraduate programs.