Getting Started
As a teacher, badging your courses as communication-intensive is a straightforward process that can have a significant impact on student learning outcomes. Successfully badging your course also demonstrates your dedication to enhancing your teaching and become part of a community of practice. To align your course design and assessments with the key literacies – written, oral, visual, and digital, there are clear frameworks and support systems to guide faculty members through the course certification process. The CIC team offers resources, workshops, and one-on-one consultations to ensure the process is seamless.
Resources to get started
Certification Workshops
The first step you may want to take is attend a CIC certification workshop facilitated by the CIC project staff. These workshops are designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of the essential elements required to earn the CIC designation. During the workshop, you will review your course and explore strategies for effectively integrate the explicit teaching of the literacies into your course design, teaching, and assessments. The workshop will cover practical guidance to give you confidence in adapting your teaching and learning approaches to foster active student engagement and communication skill development.
Dates of upcoming workshop are announced on the webpage. Alternatively, teachers can contact the CiC project team to book a one-on-one consultation.
CiC Badging Kit
The CIC badging kit contains the application form and some useful templates to support you in preparing for the certification process.
Examples of Completed Applications
BBMS3004 Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
CAES9421 Academic English For Speech & Hearing Sciences Students
CBBA9002 Practical Chinese for BBA (IS) Students
CCHU9030 Image, Space and Society
CCST9038 Science and Science Fiction
GEOG2056 Tourism and the Shrinking World
LING2069 Origins of Language
MGMT2787 Business Case Analysis and Presentation
The Certification Process
Stage 1: Application and CIC Endorsement
CI certification applications can be submitted anytime during the academic year. The process takes about 4-6 weeks from date of submission. Teachers are encouraged to contact the CiC project team for assistance and feedback on their submission.
A. Download the CIC certification application form.
B. Complete the form, and attach your course syllabus, grade descriptors/ assessment rubrics.
C. Submit the application documents to the CiC project team. The application is submitted for peer review by two peer reviewers.
D. The CiC Committee reviews the application and endorses the certification of the course.
Stage 2 and 3: Faculty Endorsement and Approval
- After Stage 1, teachers will seek endorsement of the course modification application by submitting the CI course certification form and modified course outline (with changes track changed or marked up) to their programme leader or equivalent.
- Final decisions on badging will lie with the Faculty Boards and their equivalents (Common Core Curriculum Committee and the Committee on Chinese and English Language Enhancement).