{"title":"Promoting Meaningful Encounters as a Way to Enhance Intercultural Competences","authors":"Laura Lucia Carreño Bolivar","doi":"10.14483/22487085.11987","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":10484,"journal":{"name":"Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"120-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2018-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14483/22487085.11987","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Abstract
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.