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Tapping Into a New Market: Micro-credentials for Language Departments
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When:
Wednesday, March 18th at 2:00pm ET
Presented By:
André Zampaulo, Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures
Saint Louis University
About This Webinar:
In this webinar, André Zampaulo will share the methods and approaches that the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University (SLU) has adopted to incorporate micro-credentials as part of its curricular offerings and meet the evolving needs and interests of students. Data from academic years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 (as of March 2026) suggest the emergence of a new market for language departments, comprised of students looking for short-term credentials to enhance their résumés and career prospects.
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Get To Know Our Speaker
André Zampaulo, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures
Saint Louis University
André Zampaulo (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University (SLU).
As Department Chair, he leads 20 faculty members and supervises over 15 academic programs,
with nearly 500 students pursuing majors, minors, and microcredentials.
In addition to managing the department’s fiscal operations through two cost centers, he is responsible for evaluating faculty annually, overseeing tenure and promotion cases, building annual course schedules, and providing data-driven approaches to curriculum development and student
recruitment and retention to ensure continued excellence and sustainable growth.
As Faculty, his current research explores the role of phonetic and probabilistic information in the shaping of sound patterns—both diachronically and synchronically—and its implications for
issues in phonological theory and sound change.
He is the author of A History of the Portuguese Language (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Os Sons do Português: Uma Introdução à
Fonética e à Pronúncia da Língua Portuguesa (Routledge, 2019).
He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Portuguese Phonology (Routledge, 2025).
He regularly teaches courses in linguistics, such as introduction to linguistics, forensic linguistics, and language change and evolution.
