WLC 3030 PROCESSING YOUR SEMESTER ABROAD
In this course, students who have returned from a semester abroad will process and learn to leverage their experiences and prepare the final intercultural competency portfolio and its accompanying essay to demonstrate their achievement of the department’s intercultural competency goals. Through this course, students will: report on their achievement of personal academic, cultural awareness and personal growth goals; compare the representations of the target cultures that appear in various texts – written and visual – with their personal experiences; connect and interrelate their learning abroad to previous studies within and outside the discipline; consider various options for their future use of their language and cross-cultural skills; demonstrate sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture; and articulate insights into their own cultural rules, judgments, and biases learned through their interactions with culturally different others. Taught in English.
Prerequisite
WLC 371,
WLC 372, and a semester abroad in a country where the target language is spoken.
Course Outcomes
- Intercultural Competency Goals. Students will:
1) Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
2) Articulate insights into their own cultural rules, judgments and biases learned through their interactions with culturally different others.
3) Articulate a detailed understanding of cultural differences apparent in verbal and nonverbal communication.
4) Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of and ability to ask complex questions about cultural perspectives revealed by differences in vocabulary and syntax. Be able to manage appropriately some cultural conventions within a variety of contexts. - Critical Thinking Goals. Students will:
1) Critically consider any issue/problem being researched or discussed.
2) Demonstrate sophistication in the analysis of different sides of an issue and articulate a deep understanding of complex ideas, justifying claims with textual evidence from appropriate, relevant and compelling source texts.
3) Independently connect and interrelate their learning to previous studies within and outside the discipline.