Cross Cultural Awareness Seminar
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The seminar is a 4 hour seminar designed to assist NNU instructors and students to experience another culture with depth and significance, and to write a meaningful essay on their cross-cultural experiences.
Students traveling abroad for approved Tier 1 or Tier 2 experiences need to take the seminar in a Face-to-Face format as part of their preparations for their travel.
Students taking approved Tier 2 or Tier 3 courses in Nampa, or participating in a Tier 3 Stand-Alone cross cultural experience may take the seminar online by contacting Shelly Henson . The seminar must be taken prior to the cross cultural experience.
The 4-hour Cross Cultural Awareness Seminar will:
- Explain the rationale and goals for requiring cross-cultural experiences.
- Provide a self-survey tool for identifying some of the student’s basic cultural characteristics/values (home culture).
- Explain how to use the survey criteria for analyzing a target culture.
- Identify methods for acquiring cross-cultural information.
- Guide the student in making observations about the target culture and reflecting on their observations in light of the Lingenfelter model of basic values.
- Explain how to use the data collected to write a meaningful essay on the student’s cross-cultural experiences.
- Provide the student with opportunity to evaluate both the Seminar and the cross cultural experience.
For further information about Cross Cultural Requirements, contact:
David R. Blowers
Phone: (208)467-8033
drblowers(at)nnu.edu
