My Course INZ Toolkit
Name: Nichole Jackson
Date:
Course Prefix and Title: HUM 1020: Introduction to Humanities
INZ Toolkit Entry Name: Cross-Cultural Event
Original Course Learning Outcome/s
Articulate connections between
humanities and life.
Enhanced / Additional Global Learning Outcome/s
(Ss will be able to…)
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Teaching Strategies, Student Learning
Activities, and Assignments
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Discuss self-awareness as a necessary
condition of cross-cultural awareness.
Students identify and share their own
contributions, questions, and worldviews.
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Attend a cross-cultural event as a group
where students participate in the facultymoderated discussion after the event or
students choose to attend a cross-cultural
event related to a culture they are
unfamiliar enough with to be able to
reflect on the value of the other culture in
a written essay.
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Connections to Global Competencies
Articulate connections between the humanities and crosscultural awareness
Explain the value of another culture
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Knowledge – Knowledge of the interconnectedness of
world cultures, world religions, or world government and
politics
Demonstrate the course’s effect on the experience of a crosscultural event (cultural, religious, or political)
Differentiate their view of another culture from an opposing view
of that culture
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Skills – Able to hold opposing views with others from
diverse cultures and backgrounds
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Attitudes – Articulates a sense of identity, selfawareness, and self-acceptance
Assessment Method/s and Tools
Introduce Hanvey’s four-levels of crosscultural awareness. Students collaborate
to fill in the blanks on the chart.
Introduce Valencia’s Principles for How
We Treat Each Other. Students develop
plans to practice them at the crosscultural event, with particular focus on #s
7, 8, & 10.
November 22, 2013
Students self-assess their level of crosscultural awareness using Hanvey’s fourlevels before and after the event.
Students participate in a facultymoderated discussion after the event.
Faculty assess using a checklist to note
when students identify connections and
evaluate the other culture.
Students write a five-paragraph essay to
highlight the cross-cultural themes of the
event while reflecting upon the value of
the other culture and making
connections to ideas from the
humanities course. Faculty assess the
essay using a rubric.
Co-Curricular / Interdisciplinary
Activities
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Attend the Humanities Speaker Series
or the NEH Bridging Cultures events.
http://valenciacollege.edu/east/humanitie
s/SpeakerSeries.cfm
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Attend events sponsored by the Peace
and Justice Initiative.
http://valenciacollege.edu/PJI/
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Attend a meeting or event sponsored
by a cultural group like VIC. https://ww
w.facebook.com/ValenciaInternational
Club
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Participate in a reading circle or intern
ational film screening and discussion.
http://enzian.org/
Instructional Materials /
Resources
1. Self-awareness handout.doc
2. Hanvey four levels chart activity.
doc
3. Hanvey self-assessment.doc
4. Principles LessonPlan.doc
5. Principles for How We Treat
Each Other.pdf
6. Cross-cultural event faculty
moderator checklist.doc
7. Cross-cultural event 5 paragraph
rubric.doc