Participation
These badges recognize that a professional or community member attended a physical or virtual course, conference or seminar and acknowledge the learner's introduction to a particular topic of interest.
40-Hour Mediation (Continuing Education, Non-Credit)
Audience: Professionals
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Bill Logue
Description: The 40-Hour Mediation micro-credential is awarded to learners who demonstrate competencies surrounding interest based negotiation, negotiation styles, stages of mediation, communication skills, impasse techniques, confidentiality and ethics.
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Applied Google Data Analytics (Undergraduate, For Credit)
Audience: Undergraduate
Credit Status: For Credit (6 credits)
Instructor: Jill Shahverdian
Description: The Applied Google Data Analytics micro-credential is awarded to learners who complete two courses, earn a Google Data Analytics Certification and demonstrate the application of a collection of competencies resulting in a portfolio of their work. Earners apply working knowledge of essential data analysis platforms including when and how to use them in the data lifecycle, translate a business question into a data analysis exercise, distill findings from data into actionable takeaways and work with data responsibly.
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Applied Healthcare Cyber Risk Management (Graduate, For Credit)
Audience: Graduate
Credit Status: For Credit (3 credits)
Instructor: Fred Scholl
Description: TheApplied Healthcare Cyber Risk Management, introduces students to concepts and practices needed to manage HIPAA compliance and security risks while instructing how to organize and facilitate these practices within an enterprise health organization. To earn this badge, students will demonstrate an understanding of managing and protecting sensitive data within hospitals and health systems. The badge contains three modules: HIPAA Compliance Risk Management, HIPAA Security Risk Analysis and Risk Management, and Enterprise Cybersecurity Risk Management
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Applied Research (Undergraduate or Graduate, Non-Credit)
Audience: Current Quinnipiac Students
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Michael Ben-Avie
Description: The Applied Research micro-credentials, offered at both Level III and Level IV, are awarded to students who demonstrate proficiency in handling cognitive complexity in a research collaboration with a faculty member. Badge earners must excel in making sense of data patterns and anomalies, meticulously analyze evidence in situations where definitive solutions may be elusive, engage in innovative problem-solving and demonstrate not only their ability to consider and evaluate contrasting explanations but also their creativity.
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Community and Civic Engagement (Undergraduate or Graduate, Non-Credit)
Audience: Current Quinnipiac Students
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Vincent Contrucci
Description: The Community and Civic Engagement micro-credential is awarded to students who demonstrate excellence in and commitment to community and civic engagement.
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Designing Educational Resources for the Health Professions Micro-Credential (Graduate, For Credit)
Audience: Graduate
Credit Status: For Credit (6 Credits)
Instructor: Ruth Schwartz
Description: The Designing Educational Resources for the Health Professions micro-credential introduces the essentials of instructional design — a systematic approach that can guide the development of engaging and effective learning resources on health-related topics. Learners investigate the theory and practice of conducting a needs analysis, utilization of technology-based tools and strategies and the development, implementation and evaluation of an instructional plan.
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Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing (Graduate, For Credit)
Audience: Graduate
Credit Status: For Credit (3 credits)
Instructor: Fred Scholl
Description: The Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing micro-credential is awarded to learners who demonstrate advanced knowledge and skill required to plan, organize, and perform penetration testing on a simple network. Learners are prepared to sit for the CompTIA+ Certification and are able to write formal pen test reports, discuss legal and ethical requirements, scope a pen test project, execute basic commands in Kali Linux, collect open-source intelligence against a target, explain the difference between active and passive scanning, and scan a network using Nmap.
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Engineering Writing (Undergraduate, For Credit)
Audience: Undergraduate
Credit Status: For Credit (3 Credits)
Instructor: Ari Perez
Description: The Engineering Writing micro-credential is awarded to engineering students who demonstrate exceptional skills in writing within a range of tasks, such as lab reports, memos, feasibility plans and analyses. Learners must meet a set of particular benchmarks set by professionals as well as faculty, including language conventions, logical development, problem-solving and synthesis of appropriate evidence.
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Foundations of Web Development (Undergraduate, For Credit)
Audience: Undergraduate
Credit Status: For Credit (9 Credits)
Instructor: Kiku Jones
Description: The Foundations of Web Development micro-credential is awarded to students demonstrating foundational skills in client-side and server-side programming of web development as well as web analytics. Through projects in a series of courses, students learn and apply design principles, responsive layouts, accessibility, performance optimization, version control systems, architectural patterns, database integration, authentication, authorization, security, measurement planning, data collection, audience characteristics and more.
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Gender and Society (Undergraduate, For Credit)
Audience: Undergraduate
Credit Status: For Credit (6 Credits)
Instructor: Lauren Sardi
Description: The Gender and Society micro-credential is awarded to learners who demonstrate competencies surrounding contemporary issues of gender, sexuality and women’s studies in local and global contexts. Learners gain nuanced, interdisciplinary understandings of various concepts through several fields and are able to analyze current social and political issues about sex and gender through a contemporary lens to address inequity and oppression. Learners are able to identify social problems across institutions and apply new knowledge in a range of contexts.
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Approved Courses:
AN 210/WGS 211, AN/WGS 252, CJ/WGS 232, CJ/WGS 253, CJ/WGS 275, DR/WGS 288, EN/WGS 235, EN/WGS 338, HS/WGS 308, HS/WGS 309, HS/WGS 326, HS/WGS 328, LE/WGS 250, PL/WGS 330, PO/WGS 219, PO/WGS 387, PS/WGS 210, PS/WGS 262, PS/SO/WGS 284, SO/WGS 202, SO/WGS 255, SO/WGS 302, SO/WGS 303, SO/WGS 304, SO/WGS 306, SO/WGS 392, WGS 101, WGS 301, WGS 395
Interprofessional Healthcare Education (Undergraduate or Graduate, Non-Credit)
Audience: Current Quinnipiac Students
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Kim Hartmann
Description: The Interprofessional Healthcare Education micro-credential is awarded to students who demonstrate the ability to: list each of the core competencies of interprofessional healthcare (IPEC, 2018); describe each core competency; identify each competency in patient simulations and standardized patient cases; apply each competency when working in an interprofessional team of students when given a patient; and analyze a patient or healthcare scenario. Students graduate with distinction.
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Interprofessional Relationship-Centered Leadership (Undergraduate or Graduate, Non-Credit)
Audience: Current Quinnipiac Students
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Kim Hartmann
Description: The Interprofessional Relationship-Centered Leadership micro-credential is awarded for demonstration of skills, knowledge, and abilities related to 1) emotional intelligence in class and in practice; (2) building meaningful interpersonal relationships with interprofessional peers and care team members; (3) being an effective member and leader of a team in class and in health professions settings; and (4) applying interpersonal relationship and teaming skills with demonstrable impact on one’s own life, team members, patients, organizations or communities.
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Oncologic Physical Therapy (Graduate, For Credit)
Audience: Graduate
Credit Status: For Credit (6 credits, 2.5 CEUs)
Instructor: Erin Lampron
Description: This micro-credential is awarded to learners who demonstrate advanced knowledge and skill required by physical therapists working with the oncology population including an in depth understanding of pathophysiology, medical treatment, associated sequelae, and physical therapy examinations and interventions for oncology. Learners apply intervention techniques for patients with a history of cancer, including determining appropriate and safe exercise prescription.
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Undergraduate Nursing Research Distinction (Undergraduate, Non-Credit)
Audience: Current Quinnipiac Students
Credit Status: Not for Credit
Instructor: Cindy Barrere
Description: The Undergraduate Nursing Research Distinction micro-credential is awarded to students who demonstrate ethical standards for the protection of human subjects in research while conducting selected elements of the research process with the guidance of an experienced research faculty mentor or engagement in improvement science. Students collaborate with nurses or other healthcare professionals in the process of disseminating either research evidence or the application of scientific evidence as a poster, podium presentation or publication.
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How to register
Current students
Current students at Quinnipiac University can register for micro-credential courses using the form below.
Non-matriculated students
If you are interested in earning a micro-credential but aren't currently enrolled in full-time study at Quinnipiac, you can register for certain courses as a non-degree-seeking student. In some cases, credits earned from completing these micro-credentials can be applied toward a graduate program should you decide to enroll at a later date.
