Certificate Requirements
The Certificate in International Non-Governmental Organizations Studies (INGOS) consists of a minimum of 19 credit hours (six courses), as listed below, and students must demonstrate language proficiency in French, Portuguese or Spanish.
| Required Courses: 15 credit hours | ||
| INGO 400 | International Non-Governmental Organizations | 3 |
| INGO 401 | Applied Development Studies | 3 |
| INGO 402 | International Nongovernmental Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| POL 381 | Workshop in Public Service | 1-4 |
| NPST 400 | Summer Institute in Nonprofit Studies | 3 |
| Elective Courses: 3 credit hours | ||
| Language proficiency in French, Portuguese or Spanish will be determined by the RIC Department of Modern Languages, using ACTFL guidelines. | ||
| One additional course chosen from the following (or other courses approved by the program coordinator): | ||
| ANTH 319 | Regional Studies in Cultural Anthropology - Africa | 3 |
| ANTH 322 | Regional Studies in Cultural Anthropology - Caribbean | 3 |
| ANTH 325 | Regional Studies in Cultural Anthropology - South American Indians | 3 |
| ANTH 327 | Regional Studies in Cultural Anthropology - Other Regions | 3 |
| HIST 348 | Africa under Colonial Rule | 3 |
| HIST 349 | History of Contemporary Africa | 3 |
| HIST 353 | Modern Latin America | 3 |
| POL 328 | Field Experiences in the Public Sector | 4 |
| PORT 303 | The Portuguese World: Portugal and the Islands | 3 |
| PORT 313 | The Portuguese World: Brazil | 3 |
| PORT 316 | Survey of Lusophone African Literatures | 3 |
| FREN 330 | French Civilization | 3 |
| SPAN 310 | Spanish Literature and Culture: Pre-Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| SPAN 311 | Spanish Literature and Culture: From Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| SPAN 312 | Latin American Literature and Culture: Pre-Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| SPAN 313 | Latin American Literature and Culture: From Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours | 19 | |
NOTE: Language proficiency in French, Portuguese or Spanish will be determined by the RIC Department of Modern Languages, using ACTFL guidelines. With respect to language proficiency evaluation in Portuguese, it should be noted that RIC has recently been chosen - because of the heritage speaker demography of the campus and community - to be the only US official testing site of the CAPLE [Centro de Avaliação de Portugués Lingua Estrangeira] for CAPLE is a member of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE - using the European Union Framework for language proficiency evaluation).
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