Recognizing Completed Professional Skills

A micro-credential is a micro-sized bit of education in a specific field or skill typically in a digital format. Micro-credentials recognize a learner’s successful completion of educational activities that lead to professional skills and competencies. These skills and competencies are often not explicitly reflected on an institutional transcript. Micro-credentials can be earned in a shorter timeframe than traditional academic credit and can be granted for any kind of learning initiative. 

Micro-Credentials Showcase

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General Procedures

  1. Speak with a relevant faculty member in the Department of World Languages & Cultures to plan your project and to discuss which micro-credential(s) fit(s) your needs. (See below.)
  2. If necessary, (like for the Interprofessional Cultural Citizenship Micro-Credential), speak with a faculty member from another department to approve your project.
  3. Work on your project! Let the faculty know if anything changes. Use the appropriate checklist below to verify you’re meeting the requirements.
  4. Submit your project via this website.
  5. Wait (patiently) as faculty assess your project.
  6. Assuming you’ve met the requirements, celebrate with family and/or friends when you get the results. (Please hashtag #KSUDWLC on Facebook and Instagram.) Select projects are posted to a special showcase on the department website.
  7. Add the badge to your LinkedIn or portfolio. 
  8. Congratulations from the Department of World Languages and Cultures!

Building Community with World Languages

Earners of this badge have experienced and presented on outreach and/or community service related to their target language, and demonstrate language, networking, presentational, and collaborative skills. To earn this badge, learners must complete a project in conjunction with faculty in the target language.

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Cross Cultural Communication in World Languages

Earners of this badge demonstrate language, presentation, and synthesis skills to communicate effectively across cultures in a global environment. To earn this badge, learners must attend 3 faculty approved WLC, KSU, or relevant cultural events in their community and share a reflective presentation.

 

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Digital Cultural Literacy

Earners of the “Digital Cultural Literacy” badge will demonstrate and publicly share competency in digital platform(s) related to their target language.  Earners will also demonstrate the application of digital skills related to a course and/or their target language and culture. To earn this badge, learners must complete a project in conjunction with faculty in the target language.

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Interprofessional Cultural Citizenship

Earners of this badge successively demonstrate cross-disciplinary competency between the course/target language and their respective majors/areas of study.  Earners demonstrate professional skills involving language, networking, synthesis, and collaboration. To earn this badge, learners complete a project with faculty in their target language and another relevant field.

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