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Promoting Meaningful Encounters as a Way to Enhance Intercultural Competences

Author(s) -

Laura Lucia Carreño Bolivar

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

colombian applied linguistics journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2248-7085

pISSN - 0123-4641

DOI - 10.14483/22487085.11987

Subject(s) - syllabus , interculturality , intercultural competence , institution , pedagogy , intercultural communication , higher education , intercultural relations , perception , sociology , psychology , identity (music) , interculturalism , order (exchange) , political science , multiculturalism , social science , acoustics , law , finance , economics , physics , neuroscience

This article aims at sharing an experience in which an Intercultural Competences based course was taught to university level students in a Colombian higher education institution. Topics such as minority groups, national identity and racism were included in the course syllabus in order to raise students´ awareness regarding the importance of interculturality. Students´ posts and survey responses are shared in order to portray their perceptions regarding the course and its influence on the development of intercultural competences.

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