Usually during my Comm 10 classes I assign a paper called the Cultural Event Paper. The assignment requires students to find and attend a cultural event in the area and write a paper about their experience. I have found that over the years students have had a difficult time finding cultural events depending on the time in the semester the paper falls.
The Cultural Event Paper is one that I love. The richness of our discussions in class easily highlight the diversity we have in our virtual classroom. The Cultural Event Paper takes this a step further by focusing on culture outside of the classroom.
As you can probably tell by this point, I absolutely love when students take concepts from the course outside the classroom. Thus the journal assignment and the Movie Analysis (Concept Application Paper). I require students to observe and participate outside the classroom because communication is not simply a 'classroom concept'. We engage in communication concepts every single day, and I want my students to make the connection between concept and application.
Comm 10 is an experiential course which requires.....well, experience! How do we do that? We go out and put communication concepts into action. Intercultural Communication is one of those concepts that we should put into action because we engage in IC quite often. Especially being in California, IC is quite important.
I can't wait to read your posts from this week - it's one of my favorites!
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