This badge signifies advanced skills in communicating in American Sign Language (ASL) along with knowledge of the important events, struggles, and experiences that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American Deaf Community. This badge is not a credential for interpreting between English and American Sign Language. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs administers credentials for interpreting in Michigan.

Brewing beer is a craft as well as a science. With more than 40 breweries in the area, the beer industry is expansive and well-established in West Michigan.

The School of Accounting's badge in advanced tax practice is designed to prepare students for advanced level tax research and planning for a variety of situations, including tasks such as researching and providing tax law conclusions for tax issues posited by various tax fact patterns regarding employee benefit plans and executive compensation under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA; fundamental concepts applicable to tax accounting periods and to consolidated income tax returns; and federal tax practice and procedure.

A certificate in applied anthropology (CAA) is designed to help students learn practical skills and concepts that will be useful for careers in government, business, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as graduate school.

The undergraduate certificate in applied data analytics at Grand Valley State University focuses on understanding how to interpret, use, and apply data and statistics in the workplace.

The undergraduate certificate program in applied data analytics at Grand Valley State University focuses on understanding how to interpret, use, and apply data and statistics in the workplace.

The geographic information systems (GIS) in natural resources certificate program prepares students to apply GIS skills to analyze features and patterns of natural resources based on location and spatial relationships.

Bioinformatics and genomics have become crucial components of life science research and industry, including biotechnology, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Career options are already numerous and will become more plentiful in the future as part of the big data analytics field. Students trained in these novel techniques will be more competitive in their applications for jobs and graduate programs.

Bioinformatics and genomics have become crucial components of life science research and industry, including biotechnology, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Career options are already numerous and will become more plentiful in the future as part of the big data analytics field. Students trained in these novel techniques will be more competitive in their applications for jobs and graduate programs.

The School of Computing's biomedical informatics badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to evaluate the requirements for biomedical information systems, engage in project management practices for biomedical decision-making, describe the legal and ethical considerations for biomedical informatics, create visualizations for complex data sets, design parallel and high-performance computing algorithms, and develop machine learning algorithms.

Businesses today face increasing demands in all functional areas to use data to make decisions.

Employers want people who understand the essentials of how a business operates. A certificate in business fundamentals from Grand Valley State University develops these skills, enhancing your major degree of study and preparing you for your future career.

Employers want people who understand the essentials of how a business operates. A certificate in business fundamentals from Grand Valley State University develops these skills, enhancing your major degree of study and preparing you for your future career.

The Hospitality and Tourism Management's (HTM) badge in cannabis operations is designed to prepare students who work or aspire to work in the retail cannabis industry or ancillary fields. Students will learn cannabis operations from a holistic perspective. This includes historical stigma, prohibition, legislative reform, and current allowed adult usage.

Due to legalization of cannabis across the United States, the growth and opportunity in the cannabis industry has skyrocketed. It is vital to find talented, ethical individuals to help manage this emerging, fast-paced marketplace in a safe and equitable way.

The civic change agent badge aims to inspire students to align democratic ideals and civic commitment with deep knowledge of context, history, and policy. It teaches students the values and practices required to sustain democracy through formal curricula, project learning, and co-curricular activities. You must be a degree-seeking undergraduate in good standing to pursue the badge.

The corporate transactions is designed to prepare you for advanced level tax research and planning for corporate transactions, including researching and providing tax law conclusions for tax issues posited by various tax fact patterns regarding corporate liquidations, liquidation of subsidiaries, taxable and nontaxable acquisitive transactions, and more.

The School of Computing's cybersecurity badge is designed to prepare students to analyze risk, using a variety of risk evaluation techniques; discuss legal and ethical issues related to information security; secure a network against attack; apply principles of ethical hacking to harden an operating system, apply tools and techniques to cyber forensic investigations and examinations, and describe software vulnerabilities.

The School of Computing's data analytics badge is designed to prepare students to analyze, develop, and apply formal models of biomedical decision-making; apply algorithms for biomedical data mining and bio-sequence analysis; assess and evaluate data mining software used in bioinformatics and medicine; compare and contrast various machine learning algorithms and relate them to human learning processes; describe current research topics in machine learning; and develop new and innovative visualizations to support information exploration.

The badge covers computational methods for knowledge discovery in bioinformatics and medicine. Topics covered are dynamic programming (sequence alignment, BLAST search engine), Hidden Markov Models (phylogenetic trees, structure prediction), clustering and discriminations models for micro-array analysis (Gene Expression Data), selected data mining software, and working with biological databases.

The database fundamentals badge provides students with a basic understanding of relational database principles and provides an introduction to relational database fundamental topics such as tables, fields, keys, and relations. The badge will strengthen the skills of software developers whose programs interact with a database. It also builds the skills of anyone wanting to manage data in a database.

A digital badge, or badge, is a record of achievement that recognizes a student's completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. GVSU offers both credit and non-credit bearing badges as digital credentials. Credit-bearing badges include anywhere from 0.5 to 15 academic credits and may include additional noncredit criteria. Credit-bearing badges are also posted to the academic transcript.

A digital badge, or badge, is a record of achievement that recognizes a student's completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. GVSU offers both credit and non-credit bearing badges as digital credentials. Credit-bearing badges include anywhere from 0.5 to 15 academic credits and may include additional noncredit criteria. Credit-bearing badges are also posted to the academic transcript.

Social media and the internet have changed the way we live, work, and communicate. Employers are seeking workers who are equipped with and ready to use these skills in business, marketing, and health communications.

The School of Computing's distributed computing badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to describe how TCP/IP enable the Internet to function; set up network firewalls; evaluate different virtualization architectures; understand issues posed by distributed systems such as clock synchronization, naming, and consistency; write a web-based application.

Ecological restoration is the study of conservation and stewardship of terrestrial, wetland, and aquatic ecosystems to the benefit of the plants, animals, and humans that rely on them.

The online/blended instruction certificate is for teachers, faculty members, and other corporate training professionals looking for the skills and knowledge to successfully design, develop, teach, and assess online or hybrid/blended learning environments.

The graduate electromagnetic compatibility badge (EMC) certifies knowledge of the EMC principles necessary to design or redesign electronic products that can be successfully tested for EMC compliance. The badge is open to students in the engineering graduate program.

The undergraduate electromagnetic compatibility badge (EMC) certifies knowledge of electromagnetic fundamentals and EMC principles to design and test electronic products for EMC compliance. The badge is open to electrical or interdisciplinary engineering majors. Prerequisites: PHY 231 or PHY 234; a grade of C or better in EGR 314.

The embedded systems badge is designed to prepare students to develop and debug basic computer programs for engineering applications using structured programming language and interactive development environment; understand the internal architecture and interfacing of different peripheral devices with microcontrollers; integrate hardware and software to design microcontroller-based applications to control an electromechanical system; write necessary firmware for implementing a rudimentary real-time operating system using assembly and other programming languages; and understand the working of digital and analog interfaces with the microcontrollers.

The United States is growing more diverse, as is the international global marketplace. A graduate certificate in English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) benefits those interested in teaching English language and content to non-native speakers of English.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are comprehensive integrated information systems that have become the most commonly used software applications in organizations.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are comprehensive integrated information systems that have become the most commonly used software applications in organizations.

The environmental remote sensing certificate provides cutting-edge skills in remote sensing science, digital image processing, and big data visualization. Emphasis is placed on applications of remote sensing technology in environmental planning, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, urban resiliency planning, and natural resource management.

The average meeting and event have a great impact on emissions from such travel necessities as single-use plastics, air and ground transportation, food and beverage, and hotel and venue energy expenditures. Due to the size of the meeting and event industry, it is vital that professionals have a strong understanding of and the ability to implement environmental and sustainability practices.

The event sustainability badge will prepare you to gain a wider understanding of the role sustainability principles and practices play when planning, conducting, and evaluating events. This certificate is geared toward for-profit and not-for-profit event providers. The badge is open and available to degree and non-degree-seeking students.

Hospitality and tourism management (HTM) is a dynamic sector of the service industry encompassing a variety of careers that include lodging, recreation, leisure, club management, resort operations, travel, tourism, and event management. The HTM badge in food and beverage service provides you with the knowledge and skills to work responsibly and productively in the food and beverage industry.

This badge signifies competency in the foundational skills required to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). This badge is not a credential for providing interpreting services to Deaf/Hard of Hearing individuals. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs administers credentials for interpreting in Michigan. Anyone admitted to Grand Valley as a degree-seeking or nondegree seeking learner may complete this badge.

The School of Accounting's foundations of tax practice badge is designed to prepare you for entry-level tax research, planning, and preparation for corporations, partnerships, estates, gifts, and trusts, including tasks such as explaining the techniques of tax research and formal written communication; explaining the hierarchy of tax law sources, including the Internal Revenue Code, case law, administrative regulations and administrative ruling; and researching and providing tax law conclusions for tax issues posited by various tax fact patterns regarding taxability of corporations and their shareholders, transfer tax rules, and formation and operation of partnerships.

The geographic information science (GIS) and technology certificate allows you to map, model, query, and analyze large quantities of data according to location. This technology benefits organizations in almost every industry. There is growing interest in the economic, environmental, and strategic planning value of GIS.

Green chemistry focuses on understanding how chemicals affect human health and the environment. It constitutes the core chemistry contribution towards sustainability by guiding the design of chemicals and processes toward reducing or eliminating the use or generation of hazardous substances.

Homebrewing beer is a craft as well as a science that has been enjoyed for centuries.

The badge presents the principles of information security, and how to integrate these principles into the systems life cycle. Coverage includes a broad overview of information security concepts, requirements, threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures, with an emphasis on designing for security, risk management, and security policies.

The information systems management badge (not a degree or certificate) prepares students to engage with information systems. The badge enables students to analyze the business needs that drive the need for IS solutions; evaluate and choose appropriate system development lifecycles and methodologies; create high-level design specifications; articulate ethical, cultural, and legal issues; apply the guidelines found in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK); use tools for the planning, organization, and management of an information systems project; and differentiate between Agile and traditional approaches to IS project management.

The badge covers planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, and directing information systems projects. Major emphasis on project planning, techniques and tools for monitoring and controlling projects, and teamwork and leadership issues. A term project that involves the development of a project plan for a nontrivial information system project using project management tools is required.

The badge covers concepts of information visualization, principles in vision and perception, algorithms for building information spaces, and principles of user interface design. Case studies demonstrate information visualization used to solve specific retrieval and decision problems for biological data. Evolution of visual user interfaces and visualization tools, visual information retrieval, and knowledge representation.

The intercultural communications certificate prepares you with skills in effective communication that support diversity, inclusion, belonging, and international awareness across a wide range of job sectors, industries, and organizations.

The intercultural communications certificate prepares you with skills in effective communication that support diversity, inclusion, belonging, and international awareness across a wide range of job sectors, industries, and organizations.

This badge will provide you with high-performance tools for navigating and ensuring success in today's world. You will expand your capabilities by learning how to live and work successfully within and across various cultures as well as in diverse environments; explore the traditions, ideas, and values of others, which will also teach you more about your own; and gain a unique perspective for achieving efficiencies in business, health care, education, and your personal life.

The interdisciplinary entrepreneurship certificate is designed for nonbusiness majors, such as graphic designers, writers, musicians, and health care providers. The certificate allows you to become more knowledgeable regarding starting or running a new business.

The graduate certificate in health informatics is designed to prepare individuals interested in gaining comprehensive knowledge and skills in the design, utilization, evaluation, and clinical processes of health informatics. The certificate draws from the expertise found in our nursing, health informatics and bioinformatics, and public administration graduate programs.

The Latino/a studies certificate program is designed to increase students' knowledge of the diverse histories, demographics, and cultures among Latinos/as in the United States. It is a useful program for students in any profession, as it will prepare them for working with people of Spanish-speaking Latin American or Caribbean heritage, an important and growing demographic in the American landscape.

Anyone admitted to GVSU may complete this certificate.

Employers want people who can problem solve, think critically, and work as part of a team. A certificate in leadership from Grand Valley State University develops these skills, enhancing your major degree of study and preparing you for your future career.

Employers want people who can problem solve, think critically, and work as part of a team. A leadership certificate from Grand Valley State University develops these skills, enhancing your major degree of study and preparing you for your future career.

Medical and health humanities is a multidisciplinary investigation of medical and health-related topics.

The badge covers fundamental concepts and technologies underlying mobile application development. Important aspects of developing and deploying conventional mobile applications are covered, such as mobile user interfaces, location-based services, integration with social media and other web-based services. Effective use of mobile analytics and privacy concerns will also be covered.

The ability to speak and read more than one language expands our cultural competency and enriches our understanding of the world and our own culture.

The badge covers the basic principles of wireless and wired networks, providing an introduction to networking protocols, protocol stacks, and specifically the TCP/IP suite of protocols. Students earning the badge will understand how the internet protocols (TCP/IP) permit communication between computers.

The graduate certificate in nonprofit leadership provides students with a unique opportunity to pursue a theoretically-based and practically-oriented education in leadership for nonprofit professionals. This program offers current and prospective nonprofit managers the ability to learn up-to-date professional skills and perspectives required to lead their organizations in the rapidly changing and complex nonprofit sector of society.

This program is available in a hybrid format.

The badge provides students with a basic understanding of advanced programming concepts, common data structures and collections, concurrency, software modeling, searching and sorting algorithms. Elements of discrete mathematics are integrated through lectures and programming projects.

This post-baccalaureate certificate is designed to prepare individuals interested in palliative and hospice care with a deep understanding of the personal, professional, economic, and legal perspectives of delivering care to patients facing life-limiting disease, terminal illness, and death.

Person-centered, family-oriented care should be a priority, according to the 2014 Institute of Medicine report, Dying in America. The report acknowledges the need for better palliative care education in order to meet the goal of high quality, affordable care for persons with life-limiting illness.

The palliative and hospice care model (Palliative and Hospice Care I) badge recognizes completion of a three credit graduate level course covering the history and philosophy of palliative and hospice care. In addition, current skills related to holistic assessment, communication, and ethical considerations in end-of-life care are presented and practiced.

The symptom management in palliative and hospice care (Palliative and Hospice Care II) badge recognizes completion of a graduate level course covering the assessment and management of pain and the variety of non-pain symptoms afflicting people who could benefit from palliative and hospice care. Skills for incorporating physical, psychologic, sociologic, and spiritual considerations into the management decisions for symptom relief are emphasized. Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to symptom management are considered.

The paralegal studies certificate prepares students for work as paralegals and for careers in the field of law. This American Bar Association-approved program focuses on both theory and practice and is open to all students.

Students in this program can play an important role in the delivery of legal services but they are not permitted to practice law. To practice law, learners must obtain a law school degree and satisfy other state requirements for admission to the bar.

For piano majors, current teachers, and all those interested in teaching piano.

The project management certificate at Grand Valley State University integrates industry-proven project management practices with Agile principles. Students work in small teams to effectively initiate, plan, execute, control, and bring closure to real-world projects using MS Project and other enterprise project management software.

The project management certificate at Grand Valley State University integrates industry-proven project management practices with Agile principles. Students work in small teams to effectively initiate, plan, execute, control, and bring closure to real-world projects using MS Project and other enterprise project management software.

This certificate program prepares nurse practitioners to fill the workforce gaps in the mental health system, offering an important perspective on both the physical and mental health needs of people who seek care.

Public history encompasses the varieties of ways in which history and historical methods are utilized in the world. This badge allows students to enhance their degree program through place-based and community engaged projects drawing on current practices and methodologies. It will also allow students interested in public history professions, or just generally interested in learning the knowledge and skills involved in public history, to highlight their background to potential employers and graduate school programs.

A badge is a digital record of achievement that recognizes completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. You can link your digital badges to online résumés and portfolios, career websites, or social media. This gives you a way to share experiences, competencies, or knowledge with current and future employers, professional and community organizations, recruiters, and graduate programs.

The certificate in real estate is designed for Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) and business minor students seeking knowledge and skills related to career opportunities in the real estate industry.

Businesses have an increased need for professionals with knowledge and skills in sales, including strategy, negotiation, analysis, ethics, communication, and the ability to prepare a sales presentation.

A badge is a digital record of achievement that recognizes completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. You can link your digital badges to online résumés and portfolios, career websites, or social media. This gives you a way to share experiences, competencies, or knowledge with current and future employers, professional and community organizations, recruiters, and graduate programs.

The School of Computing's software design and development badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to engage in modern software engineering processes; analyze the requirements for a software project; design a solution for a software project; develop a mobile application; and create a relational database and learn how applications use databases for persistent storage.

The School of Computing's software engineering badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students in the following areas; engage in modern software engineering processes; analyze the requirements for a software project; design a test plan for a software project; and apply software security principles to reduce cybersecurity threats.

The certificate in sport coaching provides prospective coaches with theoretical knowledge and practical experiences in accordance with the National Standards for Sport Coaches.

Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) certificate students develop the skills and experience necessary to advocate for strong local food systems and foster healthy communities. Working professionals as well as students preparing for careers in local food enterprises, health care, sustainability, education, business, nonprofit administration, social work, and many other fields will benefit from adding this microcredential to their resumé.

Offered through Geography and Sustainable Planning, with this certificate students learn the best practices, strategies and techniques required for urban and regional development, smart and green infrastructure, and integration of social, environmental, and economic priorities in planning. Anyone admitted to GVSU as a degree-seeking student may complete this certificate.

Businesses have an increased need for professionals with sales skills; highly technical or intricate products and services require advanced industry and product knowledge.

This badge is designed for individuals with a baccalaureate degree and a background in nursing, health professions, or informatics who desire to expand their understanding of telehealth implementation as influenced by current regulatory and billing rules.

Students will examine the crime victims' rights movement and relevant legislation as well as the criminal-legal process for crime victims. They will also be instructed in appropriate advocacy and services, including culturally competent and trauma-informed responses to victims of crime. Courses are taught by professors who are academically trained in victimology, and who have extensive practical experience in the field.

The School of Accounting's wealth planning badge is designed to prepare you for advanced level tax research and planning for estates, gifts, and trusts, including tasks such as researching and providing tax law conclusions for tax issues posited by various tax fact patterns.

A digital badge, or badge, is a record of achievement that recognizes a student's completion of a coherent and meaningful academic experience. GVSU offers both credit and non-credit bearing badges as digital credentials. Credit-bearing badges include anywhere from 0.5 to 15 academic credits and may include additional noncredit criteria. Credit-bearing badges are also posted to the academic transcript.

This badge is designed to prepare you to design a stand-alone native mobile application on a modern mobile platform; develop a web-based applications using a modern web stack; explain the primary challenges and tradeoffs in designing distributed systems; specify the requirements for a database application and then implement it using EER modeling, schema design and normalization, SQL/DDL, SQL/DML, stored procedures, and database triggers; describe details of data communications and computer networks including TCP/IP protocol stack; and analyze security threats to computer networks and know how to protect against threats.

This badge in Workplace Technology and Communication gives you much-needed workplace communication skills, such as designing effective business documents, recognizing ethical business communication issues, using statistical analysis tools for effective decision making, and creating effective data displays and visualization.