Creating Culture and Community

Catalog description

Culture is like an iceberg - most unseen, beneath the surface; when two cultures interact they often have conflict (crash) beneath the surface where it is unexpected and unexposed. This course is designed to: increase awareness, knowledge and skill around issues of social justice, power, privilege, social identity and oppression. Students will have an opportunity to communicate with people who are different then themselves and challenge themselves and others on these topics. Thus through this common experience and shared understanding of these issues, students will begin to develop and hone their intercultural communication skills.