InterEqual is an innovative new approach to intercultural communication education and training that seeks to equip aspiring leaders with competencies that can be refined over time using a set of practices that are developed in this training. The InterEqual program is for individuals who want to increase their cultural self-awareness (module 1); navigate their personal bias (module 2); improve their intercultural communication skills (module 3); explore inclusive solutions to intercultural conflicts (module 4); and collaborate with people from diverse cultural backgrounds through intercultural dialogue (module 5). The ultimate goal of this training is to prepare participants for living and working in culturally diverse societies as active intercultural citizens.
Earning Criteria
Recipients must complete the earning criteria to earn this badge:
- Complete all 5 InterEqual online modules. The modules are self-paced and asynchronous.
- e-Portfolio completion that meets at least the 80% level of defined standards
Time to Earn
15 – 25 hours
Learning Outcomes
- Develop your critical analytical skills.
- Increase your cultural self-awareness.
- Critically reflect on your own bias, unconscious judgments, and physical responses in relation to people from a different cultural and/or linguistic background, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religions, and so on.
- Develop strategies to improve your intercultural communicative competence, and demonstrate how they are applicable to your profession.
- Recognize cultural differences, commonalities, perceptions, power and privilege dynamics, and how they can lead to conflict.
- Understanding the importance of intercultural dialogue and intercultural citizenship competences for fostering social justice.
- Develop applied competences that allow you to make increasingly complex meaning out of critical intercultural incident reflections.
- Internalize attitudes, values, skills, knowledge, and critical understanding associated with establishing and maintaining positive and constructive intercultural relationships.
Contact
Irina Valentyinovna Golubeva
Professor
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Fine Arts