0 or 3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Lower Division
There is a high demand for students to be prepared to work efficiently and effectively across different cultures. Whether working on sustainable and thriving communities and organizations, promoting healthy lifestyles, disease prevention, or developmental health and wellness, the need to develop cultural bridging skills is important for effectively helping individuals and their communities. The course teaches students how to develop a deeper appreciation and empathy for cultural values and traditions that are different from their own, learn how to cultivate a cultural worldview, become more aware of their own cultures, foster intercultural openness and curiosity, and how to communicate across cultures.
Learning Outcomes1Identify important cultural dimensions between US and other cultures.
2Describe mindfulness and demonstrate how it applies to both their student life on campus as well as their public health and human sciences careers.
3Engage in mindfulness techniques for self-reflection.
4Formulate various techniques to focus on present situations and choose the appropriate method for various healthcare situations.
5Learn and practice how to regulate their emotions during stressful situations in public health and human sciences.
6Construct specific techniques to question their predisposed judgments of familiar and new people, places and things.
7Assess and interpret cultural situations in order to plan and interact with others from different cultures in healthcare and human services.
8Reflect on their cultural interactions and identify and develop new ways to interact in future cultural interactions in health and human services (synthesis and application).
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