Achieving Cultural Competence

Catalog description

This course equips students with the tools to understand people of cultures other than their own, exploring a working definition of “culture.” Students are exposed to the aspects of culture that lead to our value systems. How value systems determine behavior, leading to unfair treatment of others is studied. Students learn what aspects of our lives are culturally determined, exploring how societies enforce accepted cultural norms. Major aspects of culture are explored as well as how culture is learned and transmitted. Students explore the cultures to which they belong.