Pivoting Perspectives Through Intercultural Learning
Dr. Caryn Musil
Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105 "Garage"
October 2, 2014 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
This workshop will engage participants by showing how intercultural learning is being incorporated as a pedagogical strategy to create constructive and adept global citizens. We will draw from participants' observations about their own courses and supplement with examples across different disciplines at other campuses involved with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. We will also examine the new intercultural overlapping practices as they are embodied within thematic courses focused on US diversity, global learning, and civic engagement. Evidence is mounting that learning is accelerated and sharpened when students confront questions of personal and social responsibility and apply them to larger contexts. Participants will be challenged to invent additional ways to expand on their own intercultural learning in both current and future courses. Everyone should bring at least one syllabus that they hope to enrich as a result of this workshop.