Educational Objectives

• Test personal assumptions and bias regarding culture, race, ethnicity, and identity;

• Demonstrate self-awareness and self-reflection of intercultural competence;

• Define terms related to culture, race, ethnicity, and identity

• Enhance appreciation and understanding of the diverse and complex ways of communicating and behaving among different cultures;

• Increase awareness of power relationships between different groups;

• Develop analytic skills in analyzing intercultural communication encounters;

• Develop their own intercultural communication sensitivity and competence;

• Analyze national policies and legislation and their impacts on cultural, racial, and ethnic groups;

• Evaluate culturally based assumptions about past and present major U.S. policies and legislation influencing racial, ethnic, and cultural groups;

• Examine environmental factors and practices to determine how they produce inequities and promote success for one group identity compared to another/others; 

• Engage in intergroup dialogue around the topics of culture, race, ethnicity, and identity;

• Apply concepts of intercultural competence to personal and professional scenarios;

• Identify and apply acquired knowledge and skills of culture, race, ethnicity, identity and difference to professional practice; and

• Compile resources needed to engage in the process of life-long learning in intercultural

Intercultural Leadership program is a 13-credit, five-course graduate certificate. All courses are offered online, offering maximum flexibility to meet the needs of working professionals.