Students develop cultural competence by examining cultural differences and issues that impact individuals and society.
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Diversity Outcomes
From your Diversity coursework, you are expected to:
- Explore characteristics of cultural competence:
- Identify personal cultural context
- Situate self within multiple contexts/cultures
- Reflect on cultural intersectionality (i.e., interconnected relationships between race, gender, class, etc. within an individual and the related disadvantages and discrimination)
- Analyze individual and cultural differences (at the micro, macro, or meso level)
- Analyze cultural issues within your discipline
Reflection Activities
First, clearly identify and describe your Diversity course. Then, select and incorporate evidence that demonstrates you achieved a majority of the outcomes. To do so, you will need to complete at least 2 of the reflection activities listed below. As this is a digital portfolio, avoid relying only on writing. Consider providing pictures, video, or other media to demonstrate skills obtained or enhanced by this experience.
You can use video to respond to some of the prompts, so long as you also include materials you produced during the experience.
- Please select one of the diagrams: cultural competence and/or DMIS . Use the diagram to explore your cultural competence prior to taking any diversity related courses. Discuss what stage you were at from the diagram and how your upbringing, race, religion and values shaped you and brought you to that stage of development. Use the same diagram to reflect on your current stage of cultural competence. Discuss how your courses, lessons, service learning experiences and discussions influenced the stage you are in. Reflect on how you have grown more culturally aware and the role that awareness will play in your career.
- Reflect on your diversity related course by discussing how lectures, assignments, and experiences had you explore and analyze cultural issues within your discipline. Provide specific examples and your views of those experiences.
- Include one particularly significant assignment from your diversity course. Write a reflection of how that assignment addressed one of the key concepts of diversity, how it influenced your cultural awareness, and how you believe it relates to your future profession.
- Share and discuss additional coursework, websites, assignments, activities and experiences that shaped your views regarding cultural intersectionality. Examine your professional plan to continue to challenge bias and grow as a culturally competent professional.
