The Global Proficiency Certificate (GPC) allows you to distinguish yourself by documenting your co-curricular global experience. It demonstrates your personal initiative and your international competencies. The program is free and open to all currently enrolled (graduate and undergraduate) MASON students regardless of residency/citizenship status.
The GPC prepares you to LIVE, LEAD, and WORK in a cosmopolitan society, through immersion experiences and reflective activities. To earn your Global Proficiency Certificate, you meet program requirements by accruing points for different types of co-curricular experience.
You will:
- Connect, network, and cultivate relationships with students, staff, and faculty from various cultural backgrounds.
- Create life-long memories through participation in international and globally focused events and activities.
- Gain intermediate level proficiency in a second language.
- Expand your intercultural communication skills.
- Synthesize international experiences in a portfolio project.
