Intro Cultural Competence

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This course will provide an introduction to cultural competency/humility in the helping professions.. It will offer a beginning understanding of the knowledge and skills required to work with and care for diverse groups of individuals from various social identities and backgrounds. It will also require and encourage each student to work on increasing self-awareness and reflexivity around their own social identities, culture, and background in order to develop a multicultural perspective and approach to care. This course uses lecture, discussion, experiential activities, small group discussion, and guest speakers in addition to a variety of texts, both written and visual for the purpose of exploration, inquiry, and analysis of issues of inequality and oppression among a variety of social groups within the US and globally.