Navigating Personal Bias

Bias exists within and between cultural groups, on both a structural and an individual level. In this Module, you will be introduced to the human perception process and recognize that no human being is free from biased thinking. With this important recognition, you will then be taken through a series of tasks that will be geared towards self-examination of your own biases, both implicit and explicit.

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Earning Criteria

This module begins with a short video that facilitates learners’ understanding how common it is for people to feel that one’s own and others’ biases, stereotypes, or assumptions have a detrimental effect on what is possible in intercultural communication.

This is followed up by a series of tasks that need to be completed in order to earn this badge such as the study of key concepts, discussions, and self-reflection. A summative qualitative assessment with the learning outcomes will be done with the help of a rubric.

80% completion of tasks, activities, and artifacts is the minimum requirement for the badge:

  • Written self-reflections and group discussions

Time to Earn

3 hours

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and analyze power relationships between different cultural groups
  2. Distinguish between stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, racism and other ‘-isms’
  3. Explore your own privileges
  4. Develop strategies to improve your intercultural sensitivity and competence
  5. Consider how the development of intercultural competence is useful when engaging in social justice efforts aimed at reducing social inequalities
  6. Critically reflect on your own bias, unconscious judgments, and physical sensations in relation to people from a different cultural and/or linguistic background, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religions, and so on
  7. Design a short-term action plan to continue your intercultural learning

Contact

Irina Valentyinovna Golubeva

Irina Valentyinovna Golubeva

Professor

Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Fine Arts