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Certificates of Completion
Turn your completed block into a professional credential.
Any block you’re not counting toward a major or minor can become a certificate of completion that you add to your résumé or CV.
Applying for a certificate of competition
- Register your plan to complete a certificate of completion with the appropriate center or school (see below).
- Complete, or plan to complete, the coursework for a block.
- Pursue an additional experience relevant to your coursework—for example, a symposium presentation, internship, or similar.
- Take your résumé or CV to Career Works for feedback.
How to register your certificate of completion
Advising for and registration of certificates of completion takes place either in the Center for Integrative Learning (see the current options in worldbuilding below) or through one of Beloit’s Schools, depending on topic area. Certificates of completion in social justice are offered through the School of Global and Public Service; certificates of completion in media and the arts are offered through the School of Media and the Arts (see the application form here); certificates of completion in environment and sustainability are offered through the School of Environment and Sustainability.
For the following certificates of completion, offered through the Center for Integrative Learning, please complete the certificate of completion declaration form.
Offerings from the Center for Integrative Learning
Requirement #1: Complete the Building Material Worlds Block (4 Units)
Students who complete the Building Material Worlds block will gain experience both in analyzing material culture and in creating or curating art and material objects.
Four units total from the following lists:
1. Material Culture (at least two units):
- ANTH 110. Archaeology: Lessons from the Past
- ANTH 217/MUST 217. Pots and People
- ANTH 247/MUST 247. Anthropological Research in Museums
- ANTH 310/MUST 310. Objects, Technologies, and Stuff: Approaches to Material Culture
- ARTH 110. Arts of China
- ENGL 301. Victorian Garbage
- GLAM 205/ARTH 210. Ancient Greco-Italian Art and Architecture
- HIST 150. Worlds of Stone: The City in Modern European History
- MDST 150. Introduction to Visual Studies
2. Material skills (at least one unit):
- ART 103. Introduction to Sculpture
- ART 115. Introduction to Drawing and Design
- ART 202. Relief Printmaking
- ART 205. Introduction to Painting
- MUST 145. Introduction to Museum Studies (0.5)
- MUST 275. Introduction to Collections Management
- MUST 285. Exhibit Design and Development
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Forensic Anthropology Block (4 Units)
Students who complete a block or certificate of completion in Forensic Anthropology will gain the foundations necessary to undertake the more advanced coursework necessary for employment in fields that involve the medico-legal examination of human remains (e.g., criminal investigation or analysis of mass fatality events).
Completing the two additional courses required for a minor or combining coursework in Forensic Anthropology with the Forensic Science block and/or blocks in Criminal Justice or Genocide Studies will significantly enhance a student’s level of preparation for advanced study.
**This block assumes that students have already completed:
- ANTH 110. Archaeology: Lessons from the Past
- ANTH 120. The Human Animal
4 units total from the following lists:
- Methodological foundations (two units):
- ANTH 230. Osteology
- AND one of:
- ANTH 240. Quantitative Methods
- BIOL 247. Biometrics (additional prerequisites apply)
- Advanced Techniques (one unit):
- ANTH 216. Principles of Archaeology
- ANTH 225. Mortuary Archaeology
- Sociopolitical Perspectives (one unit):
- PHIL 243. Theories of Law and Justice
- POLS 211. Poverty, Punishment, and State Control
- POLS 263. Politics of Mass Atrocities
- POLS 280. Classical Justice
- SOCI 256. Criminal Justice
- SOCI 261. Social Deviance: Issues of Freedom and Control
- SOCI 281. The Sociology of Law
- Forensic Anthropology
- Forensic Biology
- Forensic Chemistry
- Criminal Justice and the Carceral State
- Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights
For a minor in Forensic Anthropology add two additional courses from the lists above, one from the second list and one from the third list.
If a student also completes the Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights block and/or the Criminal Justice and the Carceral State block, they may select all their courses for the Forensic Anthropology block from the first and second lists above.
For a cross-disciplinary self-designed major, students should consider combining three or four of the following five blocks, or supplementing two of these blocks with a disciplinary minor in a related area of study:
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Forensic Biology Block (4 Units)
Students who complete a block or certificate of completion in Forensic Biology will gain the skills and knowledge necessary for entry-level jobs in DNA analysis or medico-legal examination. It also prepares students to succeed in graduate programs in forensic science.
Completing additional courses or blocks in Forensics and Criminal Investigation will significantly enhance a student’s level of preparation for advanced study. See below for options.
**This block assumes that students have already completed:
- BIOL 110. Human Biology (or substitute BIOL 111 or 121)
- CHEM 117. General Chemistry
4 units total from the following lists:
- Biological approaches (3 units selected with advisor):
- BIOL 247. Biometrics
- BIOL 300. Protein Biochemistry
- BIOL 358. Pathology
- BIOL 389. Genetics
- Sociopolitical Perspectives (one unit):
- PHIL 243. Theories of Law and Justice
- POLS 211. Poverty, Punishment, and State Control
- POLS 263. Politics of Mass Atrocities
- POLS 280. Classical Justice
- SOCI 256. Criminal Justice
- SOCI 261. Social Deviance: Issues of Freedom and Control
- SOCI 281. The Sociology of Law
For a minor in Forensic Biology add two additional courses from the lists above, one from the first list and one from the second list.
If a student also completes the Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights block and/or the Criminal Justice and the Carceral State block, they may select all their courses for the Forensic Biology block from the first list above.
For a cross-disciplinary self-designed major, students should consider combining three or four of the following five blocks, or supplementing two of these blocks with a disciplinary minor in a related area of study:
- Forensic Anthropology
- Forensic Biology
- Forensic Chemistry
- Criminal Justice and the Carceral State
- Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Forensic Chemistry Block (4 Units)
Students who complete a block or certificate of completion in Forensic Chemistry will gain the skills and knowledge necessary for entry-level jobs in forensic chemical analysis (ie. drug, fire debris, and unknown substance analysis). It also prepares students to succeed in graduate programs in forensic science.
Completing additional courses or blocks in Forensics and Criminal Investigation will significantly enhance a student’s level of preparation for advanced study. See below for options.
**This block assumes that students have already completed:
- CHEM 117. General Chemistry
4 units total from the following lists:
- Chemistry coursework (3 units selected with advisor):
- CHEM 220. Analytical, Environmental, and Geochemistry
- CHEM 225. Instrumental Analysis (1 unit total)
- CHEM 230. Organic Chemistry I
- CHEM/BIO 300. Protein Biochemistry
- Sociopolitical Perspectives (one unit):
- PHIL 243. Theories of Law and Justice
- POLS 211. Poverty, Punishment, and State Control
- POLS 263. Politics of Mass Atrocities
- POLS 280. Classical Justice
- SOCI 256. Criminal Justice
- SOCI 261. Social Deviance: Issues of Freedom and Control
- SOCI 281. The Sociology of Law
For a minor in Forensic Chemistry, add two additional courses from the lists above, one from the first list and one from the second list.
If a student also completes the Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights block and/or the Criminal Justice and the Carceral State block, they may select all their courses for the Forensic Chemistry block from the first list above.
For a cross-disciplinary self-designed major, students should consider combining three or four of the following five blocks, or supplementing two of these blocks with a disciplinary minor in a related area of study:
- Forensic Anthropology
- Forensic Biology
- Forensic Chemistry
- Criminal Justice and the Carceral State
- Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human Rights
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Introduction to Worldbuilding Block (4 Units)
Students who complete the Introduction to Worldbuilding block will gain skills for imagining and bringing into being alternative worlds, both through creative work and in society. Worldbuilding hones students’ creative problem-solving abilities, preparing them for a wide range of careers and life goals.
Four units total from the following lists:
1. Foundations course (one unit):
- CRIS 256. Speculative Activism
2. Meaning making (at least one unit):
- ANTH 101. Society and Culture
- ANTH 253. Queer Ethnography
- ANTH 308. Bodies
- COGS 101. Introduction to Cognitive Science
- COGS 241. Minds, Brains, and Bodies
- EDYS 276. Multicultural Education and the American Dream
- ENGL 194. Questioning Literary Traditions: Gods and Monsters
- ENGL 261. Literature and Power
- ENGL 262. Topics in Literary Genre
- ENGL 265. Data Narratives
- FREN 190. The Quest: In Search of Identity, Memory, and Place
- FREN 250. Trans before Trans: Premodern Gender (in translation)
- GLAM 100. Classical Mythology
- JAPN 263. Nightmare Japan in Translation
- JAPN 296. Totoro Saves the World: Miyazaki, Nature, and the Popular Imagination
- MDST 350. Media and the Anthropocene
- PART 100. Improvisation for Theatre
- PART 170. Theory of Music, Sound, and Space
- PART 221. Theories of Contemporary Performance and Media
- PHIL 100. Logic
- PHIL 110. Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 232. Philosophy of Art
- PHIL 234. Existentialism
- PHIL 275. Africana Philosophy
- RLST 101. Religion and Reality
- RLST 205. Radical Empathy
- RLST 240. Worldbuilding in Buddhist Narrative
- RLST 260/ENGL 263. Reading (De)Coloniality
- RLST 301. Lifeways and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
- RLST 309. Secularism and the Colonial Project
- RLST 311. Curative Communities
- RLST 315. Enlightened Bodies
- RLST 330. Rethinking Race and Identity in Cuba
- SPAN 251/ENGL 250 Crossing Borders in Medieval & Early Modern Spanish and English Literature
3. Creative tools (at least one unit):
- ART 115. Introduction to Drawing and Design
- ART 117. Introduction to Digital Photography
- ART 125. Introduction to New Media
- ENGL 205. Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL 210. Creative Writing: Poetry
- ENGL 215. Screenwriting for Narrative Film
- ENGL 220. Creative Writing: Fiction
- ENGL 226. Creative Nonfiction
- JOUR 125. Introduction to Journalism
- JOUR/MDST 155. Introduction to Nonfiction Video
- MDST 100. Introduction to Film Art
- MDST 110. Concepts of Media: An Introduction to Media Theory
- PART 112. Introduction to Design and Technology
- PART 114. Introduction to Costume and Makeup Techniques
- PART 120. Create-a-thon (.25 units)
- PART 140. Stagecraft
- PART 222. Taking Action: Theatre, Therapy, and Activism
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Meaning-making Block (4 Units)
Students who complete the Meaning-making block will gain cross-disciplinary perspectives on the ways that narrative shapes the world, and will be able to analyze different forms of knowledge and experience through those perspectives. These skills are valuable in any career that involves critical thinking or creative problem solving.
Four units total, with at least three different course prefixes, from the following list:
- ANTH 101. Society and Culture
- ANTH 253. Queer Ethnography
- ANTH 308. Bodies
- COGS 101. Introduction to Cognitive Science
- COGS 241. Minds, Brains, and Bodies
- EDYS 276. Multicultural Education and the American Dream
- ENGL 194. Questioning Literary Traditions: Gods and Monsters
- ENGL 261. Literature and Power
- ENGL 262. Topics in Literary Genre
- ENGL 265. Data Narratives
- FREN 190. The Quest: In Search of Identity, Memory, and Place
- FREN 250. Trans before Trans: Premodern Gender (in translation)
- GLAM 100. Classical Mythology
- JAPN 263. Nightmare Japan in Translation
- JAPN 296. Totoro Saves the World: Miyazaki, Nature, and the Popular Imagination
- MDST 350. Media and the Anthropocene
- PART 100. Improvisation for Theatre
- PART 170. Theory of Music, Sound, and Space
- PART 221. Theories of Contemporary Performance and Media
- PHIL 100. Logic
- PHIL 110. Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 232. Philosophy of Art
- PHIL 234. Existentialism
- PHIL 275. Africana Philosophy
- RLST 101. Religion and Reality
- RLST 205. Radical Empathy
- RLST 240. Worldbuilding in Buddhist Narrative
- RLST 260/ENGL 263. Reading (De)Coloniality
- RLST 301. Lifeways and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
- RLST 309. Secularism and the Colonial Project
- RLST 311. Curative Communities
- RLST 315. Enlightened Bodies
- RLST 330. Rethinking Race and Identity in Cuba
- SPAN 251/ENGL 250 Crossing Borders in Medieval & Early Modern Spanish and English Literature
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Nonfiction Worldbuilding Block (4 Units)
Students who complete the Nonfiction Worldbuilding block will gain experience in rebuilding the world we live in through various media, while critically examining the forms of knowledge that make our world(s). This combination of skills and knowledge will be valuable for non-profit and social justice work, as well as any career that involves public writing or grant writing.
Four units total from the following lists:
1. Making the real world (at least two units):
- ANTH 310/MUST 310. Objects, Technologies, and Stuff: Approaches to Material Culture
- CRIS 256. Speculative Activism
- ENGL 261. Literature and Power
- ENGL 265. Data Narratives
- GLAM 202. Greek Civilization
- GLAM 204. Roman Civilization
- HIST 150. Colonialism
- HIST 224. Encounter, Exchange, and Power in the Medieval Mediterranean
- HIST 225. Renewal and Reform in Early Modern Europe: 1300-1650
- HIST 250. Modern African History
- HIST 264. Popular Piety and Heresy in the Middle Ages
- HIST 268. Europe and the Modern World: 1789-present
- PSYC 365. Psychology of Cultural Change
- RLST 101. Religion and Reality
- RLST 301. Lifeways and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
- RLST 309. Secularism and the Colonial Project
- RLST 311. Curative Communities
2. Nonfiction worldbuilding skills (at least one unit):
- ENGL 226. Creative Nonfiction
- JOUR 125. Introduction to Journalism
- JOUR/MDST 155. Introduction to Nonfiction Video Production
- JOUR 225. Magazine Feature Writing
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Race and Medicine Block (4 Units)
This block will allow students to think critically about the intersections between race and medical systems in the United States, and to recognize and combat the continued legacy of racism and prejudice in medical practice. This combination of skills and knowledge will be valuable to students interested in careers in healthcare, public policy, racial equity, social justice, activism, and education.
Four units total from the following lists:
- Biological Perspectives (one unit)
- ANTH 120. The Human Animal
- ANTH 242. Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 330. Paleopathology
- BIOL 110. Human Biology
- BIOL 256. Anatomy
- BIOL 257. Human Physiology
- PSYC 203. Biological Psychology
- Medical Systems (one unit)
- ANTH 225. Mortuary Archaeology
- CRIS 255. Maladies of Empire
- PHIL 221. Biomedical Ethics
- POLS 212. US Health Policy and Politics
- POLS/HEAL 230. Comparative Health Systems
- SOCI 275. Health, Medical Care, and Society
- Racial Identity (two units, no more than one at the 100-level)
- CRIS 101. Making Change: Restorative Justice in Our Everyday Lives OR SOCI 100. Introduction to Sociology
- ECON 201. Economics of Race and Equality
- MDST 271. African American Cinema
- POLS 211. Poverty, Punishment, and State Control
- POLS 214. Race and Ethnicity in America
- POLS 265. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
- RLST 301. Lifeways and Resistance in the Black Atlantic
- RLST 325. Movements within the African Diaspora
- RLST 330. Rethinking Race and Identity in Cuba
- SOCI 216 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- SOCI 262. Multiracial in America
- SPAN/HEAL 218. Health and Culture in the Spanish Speaking World
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Science and Art Block (4 Units)
This block is designed to bridge the gap between science and art for students who are interested in both disciplines. Students who complete this block will be able to create and interpret art using scientific approaches. This combination of skills and knowledge base will be valuable to students pursuing careers in museum studies, art restoration, medical illustration, and science or art education.
4 units total from the following lists:
- Scientific approaches (two units):
- BIOL 256. Anatomy
- CHEM 150. Metals All Around Us
- CHEM 225. Topics in Instrument Analysis (when topic is relevant)
- CHEM 230. Organic Chemistry
- CHEM 235. Organic Chemistry II
- CHEM 250. Chemistry of Color
- Historical Perspectives & Museum Studies Applications (one unit):
- ARTH 150. Introductory Topics in Art History
- ARTH 245. Modernism and Postmodernism: Art Since 1900
- ARTH 250. Topics in the History of Art
- CHIN 280. Chinese Literature: Historical Genres and Modes
- FREN 210. Francophone Culture Through Film, Media, and Art
- MUST 145. Introduction to Museum Studies
- MUST 247. Anthropological Research in Museums
- MUST 295. Topics in Museum Studies (when relevant)
- PHIL 232. Philosophy of Art
- SPAN 240. Literary and Cultural Approaches to the Spanish Speaking World
- SPAN 295. Filmic Expressions of the Spanish Speaking World
- Studio Art (one unit):
- ART 103. Introduction to Sculpture
- ART 115. Introduction to Drawing and Design
- ART 117. Introduction to Digital Photography
- ART 125. Introduction to New Media
- ART 201. Screen Printing
- MDST 150. Introduction to Visual Studies
- MDST 250. Topics in Visual Studies (when topic is relevant)
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.
Requirement #1: Complete the Women’s Health Block (4 Units)
The women’s health block is designed for any student on campus interested in centering the understanding of women and their marginalization in the United States. Combining a biological approach with a sociological and anthropological perspective, students will be equipped to think critically about the experiences of women especially as they relate to healthcare practices. This combination of skills and knowledge will be valuable for students interested in careers in healthcare, public policy, public health, women’s and gender studies, and consulting.
4 units total from the following lists:
- Biological perspectives (one unit):
- BIOL 110. Human Biology (or substitute another introductory BIOL course)
- BIOL 256. Anatomy
- BIOL 257. Human Physiology
- Public health perspectives (one unit):
- CRIS 255. Maladies of Empire
- HEAL 230. Comparative Health Systems
- HEAL 252. Women’s Health
- Sociological perspectives (one unit):
- SOCI 225. The Sociology of Sex and Gender
- SOCI 231. Social Stratification
- SOCI 275. Health, Medical Care and Society
- Additional perspectives (one unit):
- ANTH 242. Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 308. Bodies
- CRIS 101. Making Change: Restorative Justice in Our Everyday Lives
- POLS 212. US Health Policy and Politics
- PSYC 225. Psychology of Women
Requirement #2: Complete One Relevant Experience
Pursue an additional career-related experience relevant to your coursework, such as an internship, off-campus study experience, community engagement opportunity, symposium presentation, or similar.
Requirement #3: Complete a Professional Review
Have your resume/CV and draft cover letter reviewed by Career Works.