Workshops

Facilitating Intercultural Discovery

A special faculty development opportunity offered in conjunction with the Center for Cultural Pluralism, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources. Led by two outstanding presenters who are leaders in their field, Facilitating Intercultural Discovery is designed to meet two objectives; 1) to expand your understanding of how to incorporate cross cultural perspectives within curriculum and 2) to increase your skills in using cultural concepts and examples to enrich student levels of critical thinking.

The workshop will take place in Billings North Lounge on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24, 2005 . Monday will go from 8:30 -5:00p.m.and Tuesday will be half day 8:30-noon. A light breakfast will be served both days and lunch will be provided on Monday.

Workshop Objectives Acquire skills and methods to facilitate intercultural learning Process the affective and cognitive components that impact learning Explore variety in cultural ways of learning Expand abilities to teach effectively about cultural issues Sharpen observation skills of the everyday life events for multicultural teaching Be more mindful of how we make meaning, and increase their cultural self-awareness Begin to explore the relationship between intercultural and inter-ethnic implications of power and privilege

Learning Activities Interpretation of the cultural significance of familiar objects Discussion of the use of technology tools like the internet Exercises in the intercultural significance of naming Discussion of the consequences of power and marginality in intercultural teaching Analysis of television and other forms of popular culture Explorations of culture through a variety of media and genres, including folk lore, music and film Practice in different discussion/classroom dialogue methods to facilitate intercultural learning Learning how to ask the useful questions in designing effective intercultural projects

This workshop costs $25.00 and is limited to 40 spaces. THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. Please email mheining@uvm.edu to reserve a spot. . For any questions or accommodations that you might have, please call Sherwood at 656-8833 or Mary at 656-9511.

Dr. Nagesh Rao is an associate professor in the School of Communication Studies , Ohio University , where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of health communication and intercultural communication. His research has included the assessment of several family planning and HIV prevention research projects in the U.S. , Thailand , Tanzania , and India . For the last four years, Nagesh has analyzed the role of culture in physician-patient interactions in Brazil , Argentina , India , and the U.S. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Dr. John Condon holds the title of Regent's Professor of Communication and Journalism, the highest award at the University of New Mexico , and has served on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication since its beginning. Of his forty years of teaching, half have been at schools outside the U.S. , in Asia , Africa , and Latin America . He is the author of more than a dozen books in the field, including a seminal textbook on intercultural communication, and he is the author of the first books in the Inter-Act series of Intercultural Press, including Good Neighbors , on U.S. – Mexican communication and With Respect to the Japanese . Jack directs a study of 500 years of intercultural relations in the U.S. Southwest, with attention to geography, folk histories, and the impacts of gentrification and tourism in intercultural relations.