Open AccessPromoting Meaningful Encounters as a Way to Enhance Intercultural Competences
Author(s) -
Laura Lucia Carreño Bolivar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
colombian applied linguistics journal/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.