Developing Intercultural Competence

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the concepts of culture [the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a group] and intercultural competence [the capability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities]. Students explore the theories that inform this field as well as the practical applications of doing this work. Students increase personal cultural self-awareness and develop skills to be used when working across difference in a wide variety of contexts.