Microcredentials and Certificates
Microcredentialing and certificates are additional ways Northeastern State University is partnering with our communities to meet workforce needs. Microcredentials are innovative and flexible ways to showcase acquiring skills and/or competencies. They give us the opportunity to respond to training and educational needs of our students, as well as ensuring the employers in our area can be certain of the skills and competencies Northeastern State University students bring with them to the workplace.
Frequently Asked Questions
Specifically, a digital badge is a web-based artifact that contains metadata that documents an earners completion of a credential and which can be shared and verified electronically. This sharing allows earners to display their credentials in independent and verifiable ways.
Digital badges are often referred to as the web-based artifact received for completion of an experience containing metadata documenting completion. Microcredentials are short-term, measurable non-credit bearing activities or projects, and/or up to 9 hours of credit bearing course that provide specific career critical skills, competencies, and knowledge that are readily transferred to the workplace. Digital badges can be awarded without a microcredential. Likewise a microcredential can be earned without digital badge documentation.
Digital badges can be shared on social media, embedded into email signatures, or added to your resume or website providing a comprehensive view of your professional story. Microcredentials have the ability to transform your knowledge, skills, and abilities into a tangible, verifiable tool so you can advance in the workforce. In addition to showcasing achievements, badges can be used to view related jobs specific to their earned badge. This includes real job postings, requirements for positions, and salary data. Earners also have the ability to explore recommended next steps or related badges to complement their earned badges.
After completing requirements for your microcredential it will be issued through Northeastern State University's badge provider Credly. Badges will be issued through email. Within the email from Credly, you have the ability to accept the badge and begin sharing. Once "accepting badge," first-time earners will be required to create a Credly account.
To share a Credly issued Northeastern State University badge, earners will need to connect their desired social media account to their Credly profile Possible social medias include LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and XING. After connected, earner have the ability to post on their social media. Earners may also embed their badge on a personal website, send via email to a contact or employer, download badge visual for resume or email signature, download a printable version, or send through Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp on a mobile device.
Be sure to explore all of our certificate opportunities including undergraduate, graduate and continuing education certificates.
Contact
Savannah Ford
Workforce Success Coach
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workforce@nsuok.edu
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(918) 444-2129
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Current MicroCredentials Offered by Northeastern State University:
Microcredentials may be embedded within an NSU degree. Please contact workforce@nsuok.edu for more information.
MicroCredential Badge |
Description |
Link to Digital Badge |
Accounting Data Analytics |
The student will learn to apply new methods of analysis to the use of accounting information, and it will prepare them for 4000 level classes in quantitative methods, cost accounting and auditing. | View Badge |
Accounting Information Systems |
Design of systems to process and report accounting information for purposes of assisting management in the decision-making process, reporting considerations, and strengthening internal controls. Practice in using accounting software. | View Badge |
Advanced Accounting |
Theory and problems of accounting for transactions involving consolidated statements, partnerships, insolvency, foreign operations, governmental, and not-for-profit. | View Badge |
Advanced Buyer Behavior |
Students practice using the concepts, principles and theories which are rooted in the social sciences in making marketing decisions for firms. These include ideas on how consumers and businesses acquire, consume, and dispose of goods and services. | View Badge |
Advanced Data Analytics |
Students will be introduced to a broad understanding of the collection, storage and use of data to improve performance and make key decisions in each of the functional areas of business. Students will learn practical knowledge and skills necessary to choose systems and software, design and obtain data sets, analyze data for meaningful results and report their insights to diverse audiences. | View Badge |
Advanced Healthcare Informatics |
Students will acquire in-depth knowledge of health care informatics which is the intersection of information science, computer science, quantitative analysis and health care. Students will gain experience with health informatics tools including computer programs, analysis tools, clinical guidelines, and formal medical terminologies. | View Badge |
Advanced Income Tax Accounting |
Taxation of corporations, partnerships, and fiduciaries, estate tax laws, payroll taxes, corporate reorganizations, liquidations, business ethics, tax research and tax planning. | View Badge |
Advanced Project Management |
Students apply management processes to complex interdisciplinary organizational environments through the study of project management. Students will develop a network plan, use the PERT method, analyze crashing techniques and work with software to perform planning functions. | View Badge |
Advancing the Health of Athletes |
The Advancing the Health of Athletes badge provides those interested; sport coaches, personal trainers, strength & conditioning coaches, etc., an introductory look at how they may be able to keep athletic individuals safe and healthy. Must earn a C to obtain the badge. | View Badge |
AI Leadership for School Librarians |
With an understanding of generative AI, badge holders will be able to effectively incorporate these tools into lesson planning and content creation, thereby enhancing student engagement. They will be able to personalize learning experiences, evaluate ethical implications, and ensure responsible technology use to reduce plagiarism and cheating risks, transforming educational practices.(OpenAI, 2024). | View Badge |
American History Competency |
Earners have developed a foundational knowledge and comprehensive overview of American History from the pre-colonial period to the present. Earners will be better prepared to teach American history at the middle school and secondary level and have an acute understanding of the problems facing the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. | View Badge |
American Politics |
Students will analyze the forms and practices of government relations among individuals, civil society, political institutions, and governments, comprehending motivations, and consequences of political decisions and activities and identify ethical issues. Students will define and analyze problems, considering a range of alternative points of view and evidence, and identify factors that contribute to outcomes and that make connections. | View Badge |
Analyzing Challenges in Interpersonal Communication |
Badge earners will investigate interpersonal communication in a more in-depth way by focusing on specific contemporary trends and challenges within the context of human relationships. Badge earners engage in critical analysis and decision-making throughout course discussions and show adaptability through communication of various types to satisfy various interpersonal goals. | View Badge |
Applied Healthcare Technology |
Students gain a foundational and practical understanding of the collection, storage and use of health services information. Technology is utilized to maximize the use of information and systems for decision-making in the delivery of efficient, high quality health care. Specific emphasis is placed on the practical application of technology from the managerial and clinical perspectives. | View Badge |
Applied Leadership Internship |
Badge earners gain practical experience working or interning in an approved organization under the mentorship of a leader. | View Badge |
Applied Operations Management |
Students apply the concepts and ideas learned in all the certificate courses in either of two ways: 1) Prepare for a professional examination such as ISM’s CPSM or CPSD, or APICS’s CSCP or CLTD; or 2) Develop a research project for an instructor approved/selected organization (manufacturing or service). | View Badge |
Applied Project Management |
Students in these courses will review the course content independently and work with the professor and teams to apply it to practical industry issues. Students will use a combination of research and original, creative thought to find solutions for organizational challenges. | View Badge |
Assessed Curriculum |
Students will learn about the deep alignment of assessments with the written and tested curricula. Students will work to create a common formative assessment using best practices with different assessment techniques. | View Badge |
Basic Writing for Media |
The badge earner will possess advanced knowledge of Associated Press style writing and the ability to properly edit their own and others’ work for accuracy and fairness, clarity, style and grammatical correctness. They will have the ability to properly edit their own and others’ work for accuracy and fairness, clarity, style and grammatical correctness and the ability to locate, interview, generate useful information and accurately report material from appropriate live sources. | View Badge |
Brain-Based Pedagogy |
The Brain-Based Pedagogy badge provides pre-service or practicing teachers and instructional specialists with evidence-based knowledge and skills to effectively incorporate and apply brain-compatible techniques that address learners' motivational needs. Competencies align with InTasc standards. | View Badge |
Business Analytics |
Students will utilize data analytics to improve performance and business decision-making. Students will apply research skills to design and collect data sets which are key to the functions of a business. Students will analyze data and report their insights to diverse audiences. | View Badge |
Business Analytics & Data Visualization |
Students acquire basic concepts and methods of business analytics. Students will apply techniques of data visualization, descriptive and predictive data mining, spreadsheet modeling, optimization modeling and Monte Carlo simulation to analyze data and support business decision making. | View Badge |
Business and Professional Communication |
Badge earners develop presentational skills with an emphasis on both effective public speaking and the use of dynamic visual aids, specifically focusing on business presentations in professional settings. Diversity and inclusion in professional settings, mediated presentations, and leading professional groups are also explored. | View Badge |
Business Communications |
This course is designed to give students a comprehensive view of business communication, its scope and importance in business, and ethical and international considerations. The various types of business communication media are covered including: business letters, memos, reports, and oral presentations. | View Badge |
Business Database Concepts |
Students examine database management systems and principles including: logic design, normalization, restraint, constraints, SQL, and database administration. Students identify and describe data-driven web sites with special attention to interactive databases and e-commerce. | View Badge |
Business Decision Making |
Students acquire the basic concepts and methods of business analytics. Students will apply techniques of data visualization, descriptive and predictive data mining, spreadsheet modeling, optimization modeling and Monte Carlo simulation to analyze data and support business decision making. | View Badge |
Business Ethics and Social Responsibilities |
Students examine moral and ethical issues within business and professional environments, including the role of values and ethics in decision making for business leaders. Students will focus on the application of moral reasoning and its relationship to managerial decision making in the global business environment and socio-cultural contexts. | View Badge |
Business Law Fundamentals |
Introduction to law and legal principles including study of the legal environment of business in a system subject to social and political influences. Topics include the impact of ethics, the legal system, administrative agencies in business and the law of contracts. | View Badge |
Business Statistics |
Students will analyze data using descriptive and inferential statistics. Students will use graphical descriptors, numerical measures, probability distributions, sampling distributions, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing and regression and correlation to describe, analyze and interpret data. Spreadsheet software will be used. | View Badge |
Certificate in Applied Digital Marketing |
The Applied Digital Marketing Certificate will help marketers update their marketing skills to include digital marketing tools and strategies. Through the certificate, students will learn new marketing tools in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage for their companies. A central tenet of study will be to understand how to implement digital marketing tools and techniques within the correct strategic context. | View Badge |
Certificate in Business Analytics |
The certificate in Business Analytics introduces students to the fundamental tools of business analytics. This program prepares students to utilize these tools in making informed decisions in their workplaces. The curriculum develops the student’s ability to work effectively with technicians, system users, and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined and to communicate data and ideas graphically, orally, and in writing. | View Badge |
Certificate in Business Basics |
The Business Basics Certificate program is a 15-hour program designed to enhance your business skills. This online undergraduate certificate is a great way to beef up your resume. The certificate is accredited, meaning the courses will also transfer should you decide to earn a bachelor's degree! The courses included in this certificate will provide you with the basic skills to comprehend your business and improve your decision-making skills. | View Badge |
Certificate in Data Analytics |
The certificate in Data Analytics introduce students to the fundamental tools used in practical applications of analytics and prepares them to utilize these tools in making informed decisions in their workplaces. In addition, the curriculum develops students’ ability to work effectively with technicians, system users, and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined; and to communicate data and ideas graphically, orally and in writing. | View Badge |
Certificate in Event Management |
Designed to teach students all aspects of event and meeting management. Students who earn the certificate in Event Management will have knowledge of and/or practical exposure to current and best practices in the design, planning, and execution of successful events and meetings. The knowledge and education gained from the Event Management certificate program can help prepare students for industry certifications, like the MPI and ILEA certification exams. | View Badge |
Certificate in Fundamentals of Accounting |
The certificate in Accounting Fundamentals prepares degree or non-degree students and students with business or non-business degrees for work jobs in accounting, finance, banking, business administration, or involving business administration. The skills learned will help students obtain accounting and administrative jobs or transition to administrative jobs. Students learn about the fundamental concepts and methods of analysis in accounting. | View Badge |
Certificate in Healthcare Administration |
The Certificate in Healthcare Administration gives students a broad overview of the skills needed to develop, plan, and manage healthcare operations and services within healthcare facilities and across healthcare systems. The coursework focuses on key success factors across the healthcare spectrum. | View Badge |
Certificate in Healthcare Administration Leadership |
The Healthcare Administration Leadership certificate gives students a broad overview of the skills needed to develop, plan, and manage healthcare operations and services within healthcare facilities and across healthcare systems. The coursework focuses on key success factors across the healthcare spectrum. | View Badge |
Certificate in Healthcare Information Analytics |
The Certificate in Health Information Analytics is designed to introduce students to the fundamental tools used in practical applications of health informatics. This program prepares students to utilize these tools in healthcare settings. In addition, the curriculum is designed to develop the student's ability to work effectively with technicians, clinical users, and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined, and to communicate data and ideas. | View Badge |
Certificate in Health Informatics |
The Certificate in Health Informatics is designed to introduce students to the fundamental tools used in practical applications of health informatics. This program prepares students to utilize these tools in healthcare settings. In addition, the curriculum is designed to develop the student's ability to work effectively with technicians, clinical users, and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined, and to communicate data and ideas graphically, orally, and in writing. | View Badge |
Certificate in Human Resources Management |
The certificate in Human Resources Management will equip students with current best practices in human resources management to prepare eligible students to take one of several human resources certifications available. | View Badge |
Certificate in International Business |
The International Business certificate prepares students for careers in organizations involved in international business, including exporters, transportation, government, and intermediaries. Students will gain the skills necessary to pursue professional certification in international trade and/or business. | View Badge |
Certificate in Operations and Supply Chain Management |
The Certificate in Operations and Supply Chain Management prepares students for positions and promotions in their current or prospective workplaces. In addition, the curriculum is designed to develop the student's ability to work effectively with teams and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined; to effect change in their organizations and to communicate orally and in writing. | View Badge |
Certificate in Operations Leadership |
The Certificate in Operations Leadership prepares students to step into operations leadership roles in their current or prospective workplaces. In addition, the curriculum is designed to develop the student’s ability to work effectively with teams and managerial decision-makers; to become mentally disciplined; to effect change in their organizations, and to communicate orally and in writing. | View Badge |
Certificate in Program Management |
The program management certificate will help students hone the ability to organize and lead projects in today's dynamic business environment. Interested students will gain the support knowledge needed for industry certification in Project Management. | View Badge |
Certificate in Project Management |
The project management certificate is designed to help students learn how to apply various project management strategies to help an organization achieve its strategic goals. Students will learn to work as part of a project team to develop a project plan and oversee its outcome. A project management certificate will help students become successful in a variety of industries. The certificate will help interested students to achieve industry certifications in project management. | View Badge |
Certificate in Tax Compliance |
The certificate is embedded in the public accounting program. This program prepares students to become competent professionals in the areas of tax preparation, compliance and planning. Students who complete this certificate have the necessary knowledge to provide essential services in the areas of tax preparation and payroll processing, for traditional accounting offices and online services. | View Badge |
Childcare Certificate |
The courses will provide for 160 clock hours of training (equivalent to 16 CEU units) The Instructional Units will focus on the Growth and Development of Young Children (Physical, Social, Emotional, Cognitive & Literacy); the Impact of Family and Community on Children; Child Care Professionalism; Effective Program Planning and Administration; Safety, Health, and Nutrition of Young Children; Student and Program Assessment; and Child Guidance. | View Badge |
Children’s and Young Adult Literature |
Someone with this badge can examine trends in literature, resources, and services for children and young adults in terms of diverse developmental, cultural, social, and linguistic needs, interests, and abilities. Badge holders can evaluate and promote the school library and/or classroom collections to cultivate multiple literacies and instructional support. Badge holders can promote reading engagement through the creation of meaningful literature experiences to foster lifelong reading habits. | View Badge |
Classroom Management |
The classroom management badge provides pre-service or practicing teachers with evidence-based knowledge and skills to effectively manage classrooms at a variety of grade levels and in diverse settings. Competencies within the Classroom Management badge align with the Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium standards (InTASC). | View Badge |
Classroom Teaching Certificate |
Earners of the Classroom Teaching Certificate badge have developed advanced competency in theory, methods, and the practice of teaching, classroom management, unit and lesson plan development, assessment, and differentiated instruction techniques. | View Badge |
Communication and Marketing Skills |
The individual who completes this badge will be able to understand how to communicate a message to those both inside and outside of their organization. This will be done by completing classes in collaboration and communication as well as classes in marketing. | View Badge |
Communication Theory and Practice |
Badge earners focus on the strengths and weaknesses of theory, the connection between theory and practical applications, and several communication theories from a variety of contexts like interpersonal communication, group dynamics, media, and organizational communication. | View Badge |
Compensation Management |
Students investigate pay structures, internal and external pay equity, compensation packages, how to manage a compensation system, and current issues related to compensation management. | View Badge |
Concepts of Lean Thinking |
A survey of methods and techniques being employed by world class industries to compete in a global market through identification and removal of waste and non-value added activities. Specific topics will include value stream mapping, employee involvement, total quality, group technology, manufacturing work cells, setup time reduction, lot size reduction, work flow, and line balancing. | View Badge |
Conflict Management and Problem-Solving |
Badge earners focus on the role of communication in conflict management and dispute resolution. Specific focus on tactical approaches to constructive conflict resolution related to interpersonal relationships, small-group decision-making and problem-solving, intergroup conflict, organizational conflict, and cross-cultural conflict is examined. Badge earners explore conflict management as an applied skill. | View Badge |
Consumer Behavior |
Students apply and synthesize concepts, principles and theories from the social sciences to understand how consumers and businesses acquire, consume, and dispose of goods and services. Students evaluate buyer consumption behavior as related to emergent digital media technology. Issues of ethics and global marketing are considered. | View Badge |
Crime Scene Investigation (Non-Credit Course) |
After the completion of all four Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) levels, badge earners will obtain a Crime Scene Investigator Certificate from Northeastern State University (NSU) and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Badge earners can document the crime scenes, take photographs and physical measurements of the scene, identify and collect forensic evidence, and maintain the proper chain of custody of that evidence. | View Badge |
Crisis Communication |
Badge earner will be familiar with crisis management, have a working knowledge of case studies on crisis management, and be prepared to implement a crisis management plan within an organization. | View Badge |
Curriculum Administration |
Upon the completion of all four workshops, a badge will be awarded to the candidates along with the micro credential for curriculum administration. Badge earners must complete the following workshops: The Written Curriculum, The Assessed Curriculum, The Taught Curriculum, & Curriculum Planning. | View Badge |
Curriculum Planning |
Students will learn about and create a curriculum management plan that will incorporate learnings about the written curriculum, monitoring of the curriculum, evaluating the taught curriculum, professional development to support the written and taught curricula, and monitoring the entire process. | View Badge |
Curriculum Writing |
Students will understand the distinction between the written, taught, and tested curricula. They will then examine the six minimum criteria for the written curriculum and examine quality of all six criteria. They will then choose a grade level and a subject and work on creating their own written curriculum guide based on quality criteria. | View Badge |
Data Manipulation & Structured Query Language (SQL) |
Students will learn how to administer a structured database and extract data for use in analytics. Topics include database management systems and principles, logic design, normalization, restraint, constraints, and SQL. Students are introduced to data-driven web sites with special attention to interactive databases and e-commerce. | View Badge |
Development Foundations |
This badge demonstrates engagement in self-improvement through professional development. The holder has completed basic training in areas such as time management or leadership skills. | View Badge |
Differentiated Instruction Pedagogy |
The Differentiated Instruction Pedagogy badge provides pre-service or practicing teachers and instructional specialists with evidence-based instructional strategies to engage diverse learners in different learning environments. The badge emphasizes theory and philosophies of teaching, learning styles, instructional design, instructional techniques, and learning tasks with application to the improvement of teaching skills. Competencies align with InTasc standards. | View Badge |
Digital Entrepreneurship |
Students explore the requirements, decisions, and technologies required for starting a new digital business with a focus on finding a business idea, building a prototype, customer acquisition, and launching the business. Students will build a business plan and a website. | View Badge |
Digital History |
This badge demonstrates that students have used historical research methods to produce a digital history project. The badge also prepares students for workforce readiness by enhancing and developing skills needed in today’s digital workplace. | View Badge |
Digital Marketing Essentials |
Students gain an understanding of harnessing digital media tools for marketing purposes with an emphasis on social media platforms. Students apply their learning with hands-on experiences in designing, implementing, and managing digital marketing plans. | View Badge |
Digital Media Production |
This is a 4000-level course. This course helps students with layout and design, photography, advertising, reporting and interviewing, students will utilize it in a media career. | View Badge |
Digital Photography |
Badge earners will demonstrate competent use of digital camera, define and articulate foundational photographic principles of exposure. They will also be knowledgeable on intended and unintended outcomes of images, foundational photographic principles of composition, foundational photographic principles of lighting, and foundational principles of photojournalism. | View Badge |
Diversity and Intercultural Communication Skills |
Badge earners address communication patterns influenced by perceptions, beliefs, values, and norms of behavior that vary among people of different cultural, racial, and national backgrounds. Content focuses on increasing understanding as well as improving the ability to facilitate intercultural interactions, focusing on inclusive engagement and diverse perspectives. | View Badge |
Ethical Leadership in Healthcare |
Students will analyze the U.S. health care system, its leadership components, ethical boundaries, and the policy challenges. The focus will be on major health policy institutions and important issues that cut across institutions, including private insurers and the federal/state financing programs, and how ethical leadership and decision-making influence these contemporary problems. | View Badge |
Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals |
Comprehensive study of conventions, trade shows, and events from both the buyers’ and sellers’ viewpoints. This course will include site and facilities selection, exhibit planning and marketing, operations, and customer service. | View Badge |
Excel for Business |
Students will practice the fundamentals of creating and managing worksheets and workbooks, creating cells and ranges, creating tables, applying formulas and functions, creating charts and objects, performing data analysis and business intelligence and writing MACROS in EXCEL. Successful students will be prepared to take the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Professional Certification Exam. | View Badge |
Faculty Excellence |
This badge represents excellence in institutional leadership and strategic planning. The holder has demonstrated sustained contributions to faculty development and has led transformative initiatives at their institution. | View Badge |
Faculty Growth |
This badge represents active participation in faculty development programs. The holder has developed skills in leadership, emotional intelligence, and team collaboration. | View Badge |
Family Communication Skills |
Badge earners examine a variety of communication patterns within the family, specifically focusing on interpersonal interactions, conflict patterns and management, authority structures, diversity in families, and the family system. Badge earners engage in critical analysis of their own families and examine communication patterns that exist across many types of families. | View Badge |
Foundations of Global Public Health |
A comprehensive study of personal, community and global health with the emphasis on the history, geography, government, economics, diversity and demographics of the US and other countries. Presentation of information will provide students with a basic understanding of what health means and how people direct themselves and organize their societies to obtain and maintain it with diversity. | View Badge |
Fundamentals of Business Information Systems |
This course provides an introduction to information systems, including system development concepts, information technologies, ethical and international issues, and the implementation of application software. It explains how information is organized and managed and how information systems drive and enhance competitive advantage. | View Badge |
Fundamentals of Hotel Operations |
Study and research in areas related to hotel catering and hotel management and operations. The course includes interaction with practitioners for a hands-on perspective. | View Badge |
Fundamentals of Transportation |
Study of types of domestic and international transportation modes, their operating characteristics, economic and regulatory environments, costing and pricing, and strategies for both carriers and shippers. | View Badge |
Gender Studies |
Ability to research and analyze issues related to gender roles and inequality, critical thinking skills, strong written communication skills, analytical skills. | View Badge |
GIS Certificate Level 1 |
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Certificate program provides broad exposure to GIS principles and applications. Badge earners will be well-versed in general GIS theory and will have practical exposure to the following: 1) GIS hardware and software, 2) spatial databases planning/construction, 3) GIS analyses, and 4) data mapping and visualization. | View Badge |
GIS Certificate Level 2 |
The Applied GIS Graduate Certificate is designed for recent graduates and professionals to develop advanced geospatial skills and expand career opportunities. The certificate prepares students for geospatial technology leadership roles in government, healthcare, business, and other settings. | View Badge |
Global Supply Chain Management |
International aspects of supply chain management including transportation, logistics, supplier, and other issues unique to a worldwide environment. | View Badge |
Graduate Public History Engagement |
Earners will have an advanced understanding of the growing field of public history, the careers available to public historians, and the skills needed to be a successful public historian. Earners will be introduced to the complex, rich history of Native Americans in Oklahoma and the varied opportunities related to tribal public history. | View Badge |
Group Communication and Collaboration |
Badge earners apply relevant concepts and theories of group dynamics, effective decision-making procedures, group problem-solving, and leadership. Badge earners will engage in dynamic team presentations and activities, with an emphasis on solving problems through hands-on collaboration. | View Badge |
Healthcare Financial Management |
Analysis and application of the concepts of financial management within health care organizations, to include financial planning principles, sources and flows of funds, reimbursement procedures, governmental regulation, legal restraints, and capital budgeting. | View Badge |
Healthcare Leadership |
Students learn leadership, policy and ethical decision making in the delivery of health care and population health initiatives in diverse multicultural settings. Students analyze and examine major strands of U.S. health policy including the healthcare policy environment in the U.S, government-funded health care through Medicaid and Medicare and current health care reform initiatives. | View Badge |
Healthcare Practice Management |
Students will study a comprehensive overview of the theory and principles of clinical integration of the modern medical practice with health systems within the public and private sector. The course provides practical information about efficient resources consumption to include human, fiscal, and technological. | View Badge |
Healthcare Quality Management |
Students learn epidemiological concepts such as the science and methodology of disease transmission, risk surveillance, and quality management integration while evaluating effective health care management, program planning, and development. Students solve medical, environmental, patient and employee satisfaction problems in health service organizations. | View Badge |
Historical Research Methods |
This badge demonstrates that students have developed an advanced understanding of historical research methods. Students who earn this badge have been introduced to the methodology of historians the historical method, and have developed historical thinking, research, and writing skills. Students will have engaged in the historical method and completed a historical research project. | View Badge |
Hospitality Service Management |
Analysis of customer interaction situations and development of quality service strategies by focusing on hospitality service operations management. | View Badge |
Human Resource Management |
Students investigate major human resource functions that include planning, staffing, training, compensation, performance appraisal, and labor relations. Additionally, relevant current issues in the HRM area are studied. | View Badge |
Income Tax Accounting |
An introduction to federal and state income tax laws and regulations including taxable and nontaxable income, deductions, credits, types of entities, ethics, tax research and tax planning. | View Badge |
Information Literacy |
This badge demonstrates that students have developed a foundational understanding of information literacy. | View Badge |
Innovation and Creativity |
Students investigate concepts related to two areas: 1. creativity and innovation; and 2. opportunity identification and assessment. Students use creativity and innovation skills to identify and evaluate opportunities in a new or existing business. Students consider environmental factors, market factors, competitive factors, and customer needs to identify and assess opportunities. | View Badge |
Intermediate Accounting I |
A review of the accounting cycle and advanced work in the areas of cash, temporary investments, receivables, inventories, current liabilities, operational assets, and revenue recognition. | View Badge |
Intermediate Accounting II |
Students learn noncurrent liabilities, stockholders' equity accounts, the statement of cash flows, investments in stocks and bonds, and various analyses of financial data. | View Badge |
International and World Trade Law |
Covers the legal aspects of operating a corporation that is involved in international business. Topics will include international trade contracts, generally accepted practices for international commerce, import/export practices and processes, tax implications of international business transactions, and international dispute resolution mechanisms. | View Badge |
International Business Certification Prep |
Students prepare for professional certification exams based on specialty disciplines. Students work with coaches who understand the exam and certification process. | View Badge |
International Business Management |
Develops an understanding of the international business management and cultural environments in which international business exists. Students examine international business practices and learn about unique elements of business in selected nations and diverse cultures. | View Badge |
International Marketing |
Strategic implications of marketing in different countries and marketing management concepts necessary to accommodate changing market structure, strategic international alliances, ethics and social responsibility relative to global markets. | View Badge |
International Relations / Comparative Politics |
Students will learn to effectively communicate ideas and information. Students will build collaborative relationships with peers representing diverse cultures, races, genders, religions, lifestyles, and viewpoints, while working within a team structure, negotiating and managing conflict. Students can understand and evaluate national and international political contexts and discourses that influence societies, institutions, individuals, and human motivation. | View Badge |
Interpersonal Communication Skills |
Badge earners are introduced to fundamental theories and principles for communicating effectively with others in everyday relationships. This application-based course also examines conversation styles, interpersonal conflict, gender differences, deception, and how relationships develop and deteriorate. | View Badge |
Interviewing Skills and Techniques |
Badge earners examine professional interviewing techniques and strategies for a variety of contexts, such as employment interviews, media interviews, and research interviews. Badge earners conduct interviews adapted to various stakeholder positions. | View Badge |
Introduction to Financial Accounting |
An introductory course in financial accounting that utilizes a decision approach for both management and external users. Topics include income measurement, asset and liability determination, financial statement preparation, accounting systems, internal controls, ethics, corporate accounting, and analysis of financial statements. | View Badge |
Introduction to Health Informatics |
Students will gain a basic understanding of health care informatics including computer hardware, network architecture, clinical application of electronic health records, and health care software applications. Students will apply informatics knowledge to relevant regulatory, patient privacy, security, and reimbursement concepts in the study of current trends and emerging issues in health care. | View Badge |
Introduction to Managerial Accounting |
An introductory course in managerial accounting that emphasizes the decision making needs of internal management to achieve organizational objectives. Topics include cost behavior, management accounting systems, selecting relevant information, decision making, budgeting, responsibility accounting, capital budgeting, break-even analysis, activity-based costing, and financial statement analysis. | View Badge |
Introduction to Marketing Analytics |
Students learn contemporary analytical tools and models used in marketing decision making. Students will integrate marketing measurement and reporting, marketing pricing, demand and segmentation analysis, and optimization of promotion strategies. | View Badge |
Labor Negotiations |
Students explore strategic negotiations, negotiation preparation, buyer-seller relationships including international negotiations, application of negotiations to labor relations in unionized and non-unionized work places, negotiation simulations, and U.S. and international labor laws and practices. | View Badge |
Leadership and Communication |
Students develop leadership skills through communication. Topics may include leadership development, diversity in leadership, networking, organizational culture, power, and characteristics of successful leadership. Students will also explore decision-making and promoting positive work relationships, the leader as visionary, and the characteristics of competent leadership. | View Badge |
Leadership Development |
This badge signifies the ability to mentor and lead within the academic community. The holder is skilled in guiding colleagues, providing constructive feedback, and leading teams or initiatives. | View Badge |
Leadership & Team Skills |
This course examines the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. The focus is on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams, the dynamics of intra-team relationships, and sharing of knowledge and information in teams. Our goal will be to distinguish between effective and ineffective strategies within each domain. | View Badge |
Learner-Centric Pedagogy |
The Learner-Centric Pedagogy badge provides pre-service or practicing teachers and instructional specialists with evidence-based knowledge and skills to effectively engage in active, learner-centered teaching techniques. Competencies align with InTasc standards. | View Badge |
Management Analysis and Control |
Students investigate management control issues in entrepreneurial and existing businesses. Students learn to perform financial statement analyses (as they relate to management issues); to develop and use budgets, understand the relationships among business transactions, and how financial statement information can be used to solve managerial problems. | View Badge |
Management Certification Prep |
Students prepare for professional certification exams based on specialty disciplines. Students work with coaches who understand the exam and certification process. | View Badge |
Management Fundamentals |
Overview of the knowledge, roles, responsibilities, and skills required of modern managers. Sample topics include history of management, decision-making, international management, corporate social responsibility, corporate strategy, organization design, and human resource management. | View Badge |
Managing Diverse Groups |
Students learn practical steps for interacting in international, cross-cultural and diverse groups. Students explore inter-gender and cross-gender business etiquette, communication, professionalism, and career development. | View Badge |
Marketing Analytics |
Students apply analytical techniques in traditional, digital, scanner, and other data environments to meet marketing challenges, using probability models and diagnostic, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models, with scenario planning for digital and social media. | View Badge |
Marketing Principles |
An overview of marketing’s role within society and within an organization. Surveys consumer behavior, market research, pricing, promotion, product issues, distribution, marketing management, marketing ethics and global marketing. | View Badge |
Mastery in Teaching |
This badge recognizes mastery in various instructional methods, including differentiated learning and effective assessment techniques. The holder can tailor instruction to meet diverse student needs and evaluate learning outcomes effectively. | View Badge |
Materials Management |
The study of the concepts, models, and systems for material management and production planning. Material flow from raw material acquisition through the finished product is examined. Materials management covers the basics of supply chain management, manufacturing, planning and control systems, purchasing, vendor-managed inventory, inventory evaluation, physical distribution, and performance metrics. | View Badge |
Mathematical Statistics |
This badge will provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to earn a credential with high employer value. Upon completion, earners will be able to apply mathematical reasoning to solve problems, draw inferences from mathematical models, and communicate mathematical knowledge, discoveries, and research to colleagues and the general public. | View Badge |
Media Campaigns and Events |
The badge earner will have the knowledge to organize public relations writing techniques to create the greatest odds for generating supportive behavior from targeting audiences, differentiate between public relations and marketing, analyze ethical considerations in public relations program planning, construction and implementation of a public relations campaign, and present a detailed evaluation of the campaign. | View Badge |
Media Internship I |
Badge earners will have developed an awareness and appreciation of the foundations of the structure, practices, procedures, history, theory and effects of mass media. They will possess the ability to write correctly and clearly for the appropriate media outlet and produce news stories for print and/or broadcast, public relation materials, advertising campaigns, or media analyses that are clear, accurate, thorough, and fair. | View Badge |
Media Law |
This is a 4000 level course, that helps students understand the laws and ground-work of the mass media, tying into other courses for the freedom of press. | View Badge |
Media Literacy |
This microcredential is a 2000-level course that helps to understand video, images, etc. and how to tie them into the mass media. | View Badge |
Media Management and Planning |
Badge earners will have a broad understanding of how the media industry operates, be familiar with the use of Communication strategies to achieve organizational goals, and understand management aspects and how they relate to the media industry- budgeting, accounting, contracting, granting writing, research, and branding. | View Badge |
Media Software |
The badge earner will have developed a working knowledge of the computer application in the Adobe Creative Suite and developed confidence and innovative design thinking, leading to effective visual communication through the proper and effective use of technology. They will also be able to identify and understand the basic operations and usage of the specific hardware and software. | View Badge |
Meeting Management Fundamentals |
Basic foundational aspects of meeting planning, organization, direction, and management. Social and economic benefits to be derived from the meeting industry, analysis of corporate and association meetings, trends and influences in the global market. | View Badge |
Native American History & Culture |
Earners will possess an understanding of Native American history and culture, emphasizing Indigenous history in Oklahoma. Earners are prepared for workforce readiness by enhancing and developing skills needed in today’s digital workplace. | View Badge |
Oklahoma History & Culture |
Earners will possess a deeper understanding of Oklahoma history and culture, emphasizing the varied groups of people who make Oklahoma their home. This prepares students for workforce readiness by enhancing and developing skills needed in today’s digital workplace. | View Badge |
Online Educator Certificate 1 |
Online Educators Certification One. Teaching and Learning online. Using the Blackboard Learning Management System | View Badge |
Online Educator Certificate 2 |
Online Educators Certification Two. Teaching and Learning online. Using the Blackboard Learning Management System and OEC 1 must be successfully completed before attempting OEC 2 | View Badge |
Operation Management Fundamentals |
Students will explore operations management concepts and practices to design, analyze and improve operational capabilities and apply them to a broad range of domains and industries. | View Badge |
Operations Management Exam Prep |
Students apply the concepts and ideas learned in all the certificate courses in either of two ways: 1) Prepare for a professional examination such as ISM’s CPSM or CPSD, or APICS’s CSCP or CLTD; or 2) Develop a research project for an instructor approved/selected organization (manufacturing or service). | View Badge |
Organizational Change |
Effectively leading and managing individuals or teams in daily operations, also initiating and supporting organizational change. | View Badge |
Organizational Communication and Adaptability |
Badge earners examine organizational communication and its relationship to employees, leadership, corporate culture, diversity, change, and innovation. | View Badge |
Outdoor Recreational Safety Professional |
The Outdoor Recreational Safety Specialist badge provides those who are interested in working in the recreational setting an opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to keep individuals safe during all types of recreational activities. Individuals will have the opportunity to earn a variety of certificates through the American Red Cross throughout the completion of this badge. Must earn a C to obtain the badge. | View Badge |
Outdoor Recreation Facilitator |
The Outdoor Recreation Facilitator badge will provide an individual with a well - rounded knowledge base on how to create unique outdoor recreational activities and how to lead individuals safely through those activities. A grade of a C must be earned to obtain the badge. | View Badge |
Payroll and Benefits Accounting |
This course covers a wide spectrum of basic payroll accounting and employment topics pertaining to large and small employers. Topics include federal and state employment taxes, cafeteria plans, group health plans, COBRA requirements, Fair Labor Standards Act, worker’s compensation issues, pension plans, contract labor, and employee leasing. | View Badge |
Persuasion and Strategy |
Badge earners discuss the origins of persuasion, theories of attitude change and influence, and interpersonal compliance-gaining strategies. Badge earners engage in critical thinking to apply persuasive strategies to a variety of contexts (e.g., advertising and politics) adapted for specific audiences. | View Badge |
Political Theory |
Students will debate ideas with others expressing charity, creativity, and sincerity. Students will discern the validity of philosophical or propositional arguments. Students will gain a greater understanding of key concepts like modernity, capitalism, idealism, empiricism, humanism, and various religious systems. Students will learn to effectively communicate ideas and information verbally, visually, and in writing. | View Badge |
Preparation for Teaching Spanish |
Badge earners have the knowledge and skills required to prepare and teach Spanish courses at the secondary level. They have completed all the coursework required for alternative certification as a Spanish teacher in Oklahoma. | View Badge |
Project Management Exam Prep |
Students prepare for professional certification exams based on specialty disciplines. Students work with coaches who understand the exam and certification process. | View Badge |
Project Management Fundamentals |
Students apply principles of project planning such as describing project scope, scheduling a project, and budgeting. Students examine aspects of managing project resources and optimizing project costs. | View Badge |
Project Management in the Workplace |
Students apply project management principles in a setting appropriate for organizations and/or team members from various industries. Students work independently or as an extension of organizational project teams. | View Badge |
Publication Editing |
Badge earners will know the functions of a copy desk, know the correct editing style for print and electronic media, and what makes a good story. They will be able to identify the parts of speech and the parts of a sentence. | View Badge |
Public Speaking |
Badge earners practice effective public speaking through dynamic organizational techniques, incorporating credible supporting materials, utilizing successful delivery techniques, and conducting audience analysis. Badge earners gain practical strategies to reduce communication anxiety in public speaking settings with an in-depth examination of various types of public speaking. | View Badge |
Public Speaking Fundamentals |
Badge earners learn strategies to reduce speaking anxiety, integrate research-based supporting materials, conduct audience analysis, utilize presentation aids, and present information and persuasive presentations. | View Badge |
Purchasing and Inventory Management |
Students explore purchasing and inventory management decision making in an international economy with a focus on inventory control, management, including service level issues, and purchasing strategies. | View Badge |
Quality Management |
Students conduct an in-depth examination of management approaches to increase productivity and improve the quality of goods and services. Students practice techniques generating individual commitment and cooperative achievement as well as practice quantitative evaluation techniques. | View Badge |
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Exercise Aid |
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Aids will provide individuals (PT, OT, ATC, PT assistant, OT assistant, Rehabilitative Technician, etc.) an opportunity to learn the skills and techniques they might use in a career focused in a rehabilitative setting. Students will be required to take classes within this micro credential in a specific order to earn the badge. | View Badge |
Research Design |
Ability to design and carry out research, critical thinking, strong written communication skills, analytical skills. | View Badge |
Scholarly Excellence |
This badge represents a high level of scholarly accomplishment. The holder has led major research initiatives and demonstrated leadership in mentoring and promoting research within the academic community. | View Badge |
Scholarly Foundations |
This badge signifies foundational knowledge in research methodology and scholarly inquiry. The holder can formulate basic research questions and design appropriate research plans for academic study. | View Badge |
Scholarly Growth |
This badge demonstrates proficiency in conducting research, writing proposals, and presenting findings. The holder has expanded their knowledge of academic research processes and strategies for disseminating results. | View Badge |
Scholarly Leadership |
This badge signifies expertise in advanced research techniques and collaboration. The holder has demonstrated the ability to manage interdisciplinary research projects and publish in peer-reviewed journals. | View Badge |
Science of Reading Plus |
Badge holders will be trained in the Science of Reading (SoR), which is an Oklahoma State requirement for all teacher candidates, as well as current teachers in the field. (HB 362; Strong Readers Act). With this knowledge, badge holders will be able to utilize science based literacy instruction in their own classrooms. | View Badge |
Science of Reading (SoR) |
Badge holders will be trained in the Science of Reading (SoR), which is an Oklahoma State requirement for all teacher candidates, as well as current teachers in the field. (HB 362; Strong Readers Act). With this knowledge, badge holders will be able to utilize science based literacy instruction in their own classrooms. | View Badge |
SHRM Exam Prep |
Students prepare for professional certification exams based on specialty disciplines. Students work with coaches who understand the exam and certification process. | View Badge |
Small Business Management |
Students examine problems typically encountered by new and growing businesses. Topics include legal forms of business; managing growth; developing management teams; start-up versus purchase decisions; franchising; and business valuations. | View Badge |
Social Impact and Entrepreneurship |
Students will compare and contrast traditional entrepreneurship with the ways in which social ventures address social problems and unmet needs. Students will also measure the social impact of their ventures and compare them with comparable efforts in development and philanthropic initiatives. | View Badge |
Strategic Business Decision Making |
Students explore development, implementation, and utilization of business models for managerial decision making using quantitative decision-support tools for model formulation and applications. Spreadsheets and real cases will prepare managers for the types of problems they will encounter on the job. The goal is to empower students to identify, model and solve practical business problems. | View Badge |
Strategic Digital Entrepreneurship |
Students explore the requirements, decisions, and technologies required for starting a new digital business focusing on finding a business idea, building a prototype, customer acquisition, and launching the business. Students will build a business plan and website. | View Badge |
Strategic Digital Marketing |
Students in these courses will review the course content independently and work with the professor and teams to apply it to practical industry issues. Students will use a combination of research and original, creative thought to find solutions for organizational challenges. | View Badge |
Strategic Leadership |
Students develop a strategic mindset, critical reasoning and problem-solving skills to assume leadership positions in organizations. Students experience integration of aspects of management, decision-making models, leverage of technology, legal and regulatory issues in a globalized market, and cross-cultural communication skills. | View Badge |
Strategic Operations Management |
Students take a general manager’s view of operations, organize their thinking around a strategic framework, and make decisions that create better integration among the different activities of an operations’ function to optimize performance. | View Badge |
Strategic Organizational Change |
Students explore and explain the basic concepts of organizational behavior and the principles, techniques, and tools to manage change. Students develop organizational competencies and capabilities to manage structure, processes, people, and implement change in areas such as motivation, communication, conflict, negotiation, power and influence, and teams. | View Badge |
Strategic Supply Chain Management |
Students analyze various aspects of the supply chain including strategic dimensions of logistics, transportation, materials handling, purchasing, ethics, lean processes, negotiation, and inventory control. | View Badge |
Strategic Talent Management |
Students explore theoretical, legal, methodological, and substantive issues related to recruitment, selection systems, and performance appraisal systems. | View Badge |
Supervisory Skills |
The individual who completes this badge will be able to understand many of the basic soft skills required of a supervisor. These include handling difficult employee behavior, coaching subordinates and working across generations. It is the goal of this certificate to enable the new supervisor to be able to hone skills that are specific to leadership roles. Through this certificate you will learn to work in a multigeneration workforce, coach employees and many other skills. | View Badge |
Taught Curriculum |
Students will learn about the taught curriculum and what effective reaching resembles. They will evaluate several teaching scenarios based upon deep alignment with the written and tested curricula. Badge earners must complete the following workshop: The Taught Curriculum | View Badge |
Teaching Advancement |
This badge represents an advanced ability to apply interactive and student-centered teaching techniques. The holder is skilled in using technology and active learning strategies to enhance student engagement. | View Badge |
Teaching Excellence |
This badge demonstrates expertise in educational leadership, mentorship, and innovation. The holder has led faculty development initiatives and actively contributes to advancing teaching practices within their institution. | View Badge |
Teaching Foundations |
This badge demonstrates foundational competence in teaching practices. The holder has acquired essential skills in instructional techniques and can apply basic teaching strategies in a learning environment. | View Badge |
Team Skills |
Students develop management and team skills, including analytical and creative problem solving, effective and supportive communication, coaching and counseling, gaining power and influence, managing stress, time management, managing interpersonal conflict, and delegating effectively. The skills are learned and practiced through the use of cases, in-class exercises, and the application of the skills. | View Badge |
TESOL I - Theory |
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is a growth industry worldwide. Gray Associates provided data in 2018 identifying at least thirty unfilled or unfillable positions in the area served by NSU. This number is only expected to increase with the steady influx of non-native English speakers into Eastern Oklahoma. Together, the proposed theory-based TESOL I and the practice-based TESOL II micro credentials will prepare students to obtain TESOL jobs or pursue graduate education. | View Badge |
TESOL II - Practice |
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is a growth industry worldwide. Gray Associates provided data in 2018 identifying at least thirty unfilled or unfillable positions in the area served by NSU. This number is only expected to increase with the steady influx of non-native English speakers into Eastern Oklahoma. Together, the proposed practice-based TESOL II and the theory-based TESOL I micro credentials will prepare students to obtain TESOL jobs or pursue graduate education. | View Badge |
Tourism and Event Marketing |
Students will examine the special techniques and practical applications of techniques that are used to promote and market meetings, conventions, trade shows, tourism-related businesses, and destination areas. | View Badge |
Trends in Healthcare Administration |
Students participate in an interdisciplinary discussion of current issues in the American healthcare system including delivery methods, integration of services, reimbursement mechanisms, multi-organizational structures, and health policies. | View Badge |
Undergraduate Public History Engagement |
This microcredential introduces students to the complex, rich history of Native Americans in Oklahoma and the varied opportunities related to tribal public history. Prepares students for workforce readiness by enhancing and developing skills needed in today’s digital workplace. | View Badge |
Undergraduate Research Level 1 |
This badge demonstrates that earners have completed the first steps of the research process. Badge earners have identified a research mentor with whom they will complete a research project. The project might be a source- or literature-based research paper, hands-on laboratory experience, field-based project, or data interpretation project. Also, the student has observed how academic research is communicated professionally by attending a formal research presentation. | View Badge |
Undergraduate Research Level 2 |
This badge demonstrates that students have engaged in the process of research. Students who earn this badge have successfully written a research paper or engaged in a research project with faculty guidance. | View Badge |
Undergraduate Research Level 3 |
This badge demonstrates the student’s engagement in mentored undergraduate research experiences, advanced understanding of research methodologies, and participation in a public research presentation. Badge earners have acquired knowledge and skills in ethical research the conscientious practice of research, and have publicly presented their research. | View Badge |
Undergraduate Research MicroCredential |
Earners must have completed Badge Levels 1, 2, and 3 to earn this microcredential. Earners must have sought out a faculty research mentor, attended professional research presentations, completed a research project under the guidance of a faculty mentor, and publicly presented their research to a larger academic community, showcasing an advanced understanding of methodologies, ethical research practices, and effective communication skills. | View Badge |
Using Authentic Assessment Part One |
Authentic assessment evaluates student learning by focusing on the application of skills, knowledge, or attributes in realistic situations. Authentic assessments highlight the responsibilities or duties of professionals within a given discipline and how the knowledge learned in class applies to a real-world situation, often bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application. | View Badge |
Using Authentic Assessment Part Two |
Authentic assessment evaluates student learning by focusing on the application of skills, knowledge, or attributes in realistic situations. Authentic assessments highlight the responsibilities or duties of professionals within a given discipline and how the knowledge learned in class applies to a real-world situation, often bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application. | View Badge |
Web Content Creator |
The purpose of this badge is to draw attention to those content managers that complete the full content manager training program which will involve the creation of pages, best practices, writing for the web, knowledge of Omni Update CMS and other tools necessary to create dynamic content/pages for NSU’s website. Users who complete this program will also be proficient in metadata, keywords and search engine optimization (SEO). | View Badge |
Western Civilization Competency |
Badge earners have been introduced to the development of Western culture’s characteristics, institutions, and traditions. Earners will have an acute understanding of the problems facing Western nations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. | View Badge |
World Civilization Competency |
Badge earners will have an acute understanding of the world’s problems in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Earners will have demonstrated workforce readiness skills such as information literacy, digital literacy, analytical inquiry, critical thinking, effective written communication skills, and developed foundational content knowledge. | View Badge |