Inter-Cultural Communication and Studying Abroad

Catalog description

This course will cultivate a sense of cultural curiosity that has self-awareness and humility as key attributes. The course is designed to facilitate students' active engagement with their host communities during study abroad and to direct thoughtful and impactful intellectual analysis and discussion of concepts of cultural identity, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism. The course will be aimed at students preparing for stints of study or internships abroad under BOSP and the SEED program. It will create opportunities for intercultural engagement and offer tools for intercultural analysis and strategy development through an exploration of various political, social, cultural, and artistic features of the host community. It will also encourage students to engage with the communities in which they will be living and question their own and others' perspectives, while learning to interact purposefully and respectfully with intercultural differences to achieve meaningful cross-cultural understanding.