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
- Identify and analyze power relationships between different cultural groups
- Distinguish between stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, racism and other ‘-isms’
- Explore your own privileges
- Develop strategies to improve your intercultural sensitivity and competence
- Consider how the development of intercultural competence is useful when engaging in social justice efforts aimed at reducing social inequalities
- 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
- Design a short-term action plan to continue your intercultural learning
Contact
Irina Valentyinovna Golubeva
Professor
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Fine Arts