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Integrating Intercultural Competencies into the Professional Skills Curriculum

Integrating Intercultural Competencies into the Professional Skills Curriculum
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Author(s): Svitlana Taraban-Gordon (University of Waterloo, Canada)and Easton Page (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 21
Source title: Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Grisel María García-Pérez (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada)and Constanza Rojas-Primus (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1732-0.ch005

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Abstract

Intercultural competence is increasingly seen by employers as a desirable graduate capability needed in today's diverse and intercultural workplace. This chapter reports on a curriculum intervention - a 20-hour online intercultural skills course - aimed at introducing a large number of undergraduate students enrolled in a co-operative education program to fundamental intercultural concepts and ideas. The chapter seeks to contribute to the literature on intercultural skill development by discussing the course model and its implementation, student perceptions of their level of intercultural competence prior to and after the course, and the challenges involved in the delivery of the course. The main purpose of the chapter is to discuss how courses and programs that aim to develop professional skills may offer a promising vehicle for fostering students' intercultural competence, particularly when these courses utilize online learning tools to enable greater access to intercultural learning.

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